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THIS WEEK’S CHICAGO WOLVES HEADLINES MONDAY, OCT. 14, 2019

HUGE WEEKEND AHEAD

The Chicago Wolves are only two weeks into the 2019-20 season, but the organization already has
reached one of the highlight weekends on the calendar. Not only are the three hockey games bigger
than normal, but the plans for the games at Allstate Arena are outsized as well.

The Wolves open their three-games-in-three-days weekend on Friday at Rockford for the first Illinois
Lottery Cup contest of the season. This marks the ninth year in a row that the Illinois Lottery rewards the
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best American Hockey League team in the Land of Lincoln with the Illinois Lottery Cup. The Wolves have
owned the Cup for each of the last three seasons. Hockey fans throughout Chicago can catch Friday’s GARRET SPARKS
game on My50 Chicago. The Elmhurst native handed
both games over the weekend
On Saturday, the Wolves welcome Rockford to Allstate Arena as the team hosts its inaugural Pride Night. at San Antonio and earned
In addition to helping Chicago’s Center on Halsted ($5 from each ticket purchased specifically for Pride his first win with the Wolves.
Night goes there), the Wolves are recognizing IMPACT wrestler Kiera Hogan and 13-year-old Buffalo
Grove resident Molly Pinta while commemorating National Coming Out Month and letting everyone know Sparks rejected 56 of 59 shots
hockey is for everyone. (.949 save percentage) and all
three shootout attempts while
On Sunday afternoon, the Wolves host the Milwaukee Admirals as the traditional rivals kick off their playing 122 minutes at the
season series on the first of 10 Little Debbie Sundays. The first 1,000 kids to enter Allstate Arena receive AT&T Center. With goaltending partner Oscar Dansk
a Brookfield Zoo admission pass. There’s free sign-making, face-painting and caricature portraits on the
concourse and a postgame autograph session with Wolves players. recalled to Vegas on Saturday, Sparks should get
most of the work this week.

ADDING FIREPOWER TO THE SQUAD LUCAS ELVENES

The Wolves and their NHL partner, the Vegas Golden Knights, made several transactions last week The 20-year-old Sweden native
designed to make both squads even better. While Vegas added Wolves goaltender Oscar Dansk to struck again Saturday night
replace the injured Malcolm Subban, the Golden Knights sent center Nicolas Roy and defenseman at San Antonio. With neither
Jimmy Schuldt to the Wolves. team able to score during
Roy, a key player on last year’s Charlotte Checkers squad that defeated the Wolves in the Calder Cup the first 46 minutes, Elvenes
Finals, joined the team Saturday night and immediately became the top line’s center. He also joined the picked up a Rampage turnover
top power-play and penalty-kill units. Schuldt immediately became the quarterback of the power play. in the offensive zone and
rifled it home. Elvenes leads
REWIND (1-1-0-0) the Wolves in goals (2), assists (3) and points (5).
Not bad for a rookie who has played just three
Saturday, Oct. 12 Chicago 2, (at) San Antonio 1 (SO) professional games in North America.
• Center Gage Quinney scored in the first round of the shootout and goaltender Garret Sparks made
it stand up at AT&T Center as the Wolves earned their first win of the year. GAGE QUINNEY
• Forward Lucas Elvenes snapped a scoreless tie 6:45 into the third period with his second goal of Quinney has been a force in
the season. all three Wolves games this
• Sparks stopped 32 of 33 shots in regulation and overtime and all three shootout attempts. season. In Saturday’s 2-1 win
at San Antonio, Quinney made
Friday, Oct. 11 (at) San Antonio 3, Chicago 0 the difference as the only
• Former Wolves goaltender Ville Husso stopped all 26 shots he faced to lead the Rampage to the
victory at AT&T Center. player in the three-round
• San Antonio scored a pair of power-play goals (by Nathan Walker and Derrick Pouliot) while Walker shootout to deliver. In the
added an empty-net goal with 1:31 left. The Wolves went 0 for 6 on the power play. third period, Quinney had the
• Goaltender Garret Sparks stopped 24 of 26 shots. presence of mind to lift a Rampage player’s stick.
That enabled a San Antonio pass to go straight

ON DECK to Lucas Elvenes for the Wolves’ first goal.

Friday, Oct. 18 at Rockford* MetroCentre 7 p.m.

ON SUNDAY...
Saturday, Oct. 19
Sunday, Oct. 20
vs. Rockford*
vs. Milwaukee*
Allstate Arena
Allstate Arena
7 p.m.
3 p.m. TOP LINE
Before Sunday’s game, Justin Sata performs the
ceremonial puck drop to point the spotlight on
National Dwarfism Awareness Month. Justin, the
Wednesday, Oct. 23 vs. Texas Allstate Arena 11 a.m.
10-year-old son of Wolves senior vice president
Saturday, Oct. 26 vs. Manitoba Allstate Arena 7 p.m. Jon Sata, was born with achondroplasia (the
All times Central *--Broadcast on My50 (WPWR-TV) most common form of dwarfism). He works as a
Wolves locker-room attendant on game days and
Visit ChicagoWolves.com for a complete broadcast schedule; all games stream in HD on TheAHL.com/AHLTV has formed a tight bond with all of the players.