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FRONT OFFICESeth Gold DirectorIrwin Jann DirectorMike Gordon PresidentWayne Messmer Senior Executive Vice PresidentDana Wildman Executive Assistant

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FOUR-TIME CHAMPIONSTHE CHICAGO WOLVES FRANCHISE IS DEFINED BY EXCELLENCE. During an 11-year span from 1997-2008, the Wolves reached the league Finals six times and came away with the championship trophy four times. In 1998 and 2000, the Wolves skated away with the International Hockey League’s Turner Cup. In 2002 and 2008, the team hoisted the American Hockey League’s big prize, the Calder Cup. Regardless of which league they’ve played, the Wolves organization has become synonymous with winning. It’s a tradition they carry into their 20th season of competition. Here, we look back at the four most momentous days in Wolves history, all of which have added to the franchise’s illustrious fabric.

JUNE 5, 2000After a scoreless first period, center Derek Plante

notched two goals just 26 seconds apart in the

second period to eliminate the Grand Rapids

Griffins at Van Andel Arena and capture the

Wolves’ second Turner Cup Championship in three

years. With the victory, Chicago became the

16th team in league history to capture multiple

IHL championships (1998 and 2000). Wolves

goaltender Andrei Trefilov was awarded the N.R.

”Bud“ Poile Trophy as the Turner Cup Playoffs

Most Valuable Player, having led the league during

the postseason in both goals-against average

(1.35) and save percentage (.950).

5 WO LV E S H I STO RY

JUNE 15, 1998Backed by 16,701 fans, the second-largest crowd in Turner Cup Finals history, the Wolves shut out the

Detroit Vipers 3-0 to capture their first Turner Cup Championship, 4-games-to-3. It was the first seven-

game series for the IHL Championship in 13 years, while the shutout set a then-franchise record with

two in one postseason. Chicago won the last two games of the series to become only the sixth team in

the IHL’s 53-year history to rebound from a 3-games-to-2 deficit in the Finals. Wolves center Alexander

Semak walked away with the N.R. ”Bud“ Poile Trophy as the postseason’s most valuable player.

JUNE 3, 2002The Wolves clinched their third championship in

five years when center Yuri Butsayev scored 2:05

into the second overtime to defeat the Bridgeport

Sound Tigers 4-3 and capture the Calder Cup

Championship, 4-games-to-1, at the Allstate Arena.

The Wolves, who played a league-high 105 games,

including an all-time American Hockey League-

high 25 playoff games, became the sixth team

in AHL history to win the championship in their

inaugural season. Goaltender Pasi Nurminen was

awarded the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the

playoff MVP, posting a league-leading and then

franchise-high 15 wins. Right wing Rob Brown, who

notched three assists in the victory, led the league

during the postseason with a then-franchise record

33 points and tied an AHL and team record with

26 assists.

JUNE 10, 2008The Wolves clinched their fourth league title in 11

years and second Calder Cup Championship with a

5-2 victory and a 4-games-to-2 series win over the

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at Allstate Arena.

Center Jason Krog capped a four-point night with

a hat trick and an assist, which earned him the

Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the MVP of the 2008

Calder Cup Playoffs. He matched franchise marks

with 12 goals and 26 assists in the postseason

and established a new club record with 38 points.

Rookie goaltender Ondrej Pavelec collected his

16th postseason win, the most in club history.

B R E A K A W A Y M A G A Z I N E

FOR 19 SEASONS, CHICAGO WOLVES PHOTOGRAPHER ROSS DETTMAN has been dedicated to chronicling the team’s improbable goals, wild celebrations and memorable fights. Just like a favorite player, certain photos and events stand out among the rest. Here, he shares the images thatstick with him season after season.

BEHIND THE LENS

FANS CELEBRATING IN SILHOUETTE (1996)

A lot of what I do is the other side of the glass. This

photo was on the second level of the arena. With

the configuration of the building, you can make fans

become silhouettes and frame them against the

ice. It’s not about who they are, but what they’re

doing. I would find a collection of people and I would

wait for a goal and the group jumps up and you get

the celebration down on the ice and you have the

jubilation of the fans. It’s a different frame and I liked

it a lot.

COLIN STUART BENCH JUMP (2008)That night I knew there was a potential Calder Cup-winning

moment to grab. I wanted to be in position to produce as

many looks as I could and the bench was going to be the

central place where the excitement emanates from. I got

a ladder and I was behind the bench and trying to map it

out and find a cool angle. I framed it so there were fans in

the frame too. When I saw Stewy jumping over the bench I

knew: that was going to be a bad-ass photo. It embodied so

many things. It’s quite possibly my favorite hockey photo

I’ve ever made. You can feel the energy in the building. All

the parts of the celebration are happening in those two

seconds. The fans, the coaches, the player, the goalie, the

dejection; it’s got it all. I knew it was going to be a good

photo, but didn’t know it would be that good.

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DEREK JOSLIN PORTRAIT (2013)

It’s a really strong photograph and I love the light

on it. As a photographer I tend to look for things

that take us in a different direction. What I liked

about this is it captured the intensity of who

Derek is. You look at his face and he’s intimidating.

When I first saw him I thought I wanted to bring

out the textures in his face. We have a challenge

to visually stimulate our audience and have it

still be a Wolves photo, though. The branding

component always comes to mind. It’s a challenge.

It’s a dark photo, but it came out as a really

beautiful cover. I like the tones of it, how it has a

mysterious, brooding feel to it, because that’s who

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DON LEVINCHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD / GOVERNOR

WILLIAM BUDDY MEYERSVICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

DONALD R. LEVIN (luh-VIN) founded DRL Enterprises, Inc., in 1969. The Chicago-based company has holdings in many industries including tobacco processing, aircraft and medical equipment leasing, licensed sports product manufacturing and distribution, and motion picture production and distribution.

Levin’s film company has made nearly 20 motion pictures distributed in the U.S. and overseas. His films have featured such stars as Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Sharon Stone, Rodney Dangerfield, and Chuck Norris.

Levin founded the Chicago Wolves with William Buddy Meyers and Grant Mulvey in January 1994 and has served as the team’s chairman of the board throughout.

Levin donates his time and serves on the board of directors for several charitable organizations.

Levin also supports Chicago’s Department of Animal Care and Control (ACC). The Wolves host the ACC’s Adopt-a-Dog program at several home games each season and encourage fans to bring home an adopted dog after the game. The Adopt-A-Dog program has found homes for 1,080 dogs in its first 13 seasons. Ten years ago, Levin purchased and donated the Animobile -- a mobile adoption unit and a modern clinic staffed by veterinarians and adoption specialists.

The Chicago native was recognized at the Boy Scouts of America’s Northwest Suburban Council’s Distinguished Citizens Banquet as its 2005 Honoree. Under Levin’s direction, the Wolves organization has held a scout night for the Northwest Suburban Council at a home game for the last 16 seasons.

Levin was inducted into the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame on Jan. 27, 2013. He was honored as the International Hockey League’s Executive of the Year for the 1999-2000 season, which concluded with the franchise’s second of four championships.

Before beginning his business career, Levin served in the United States Marine Corps, from which he was honorably discharged.

Levin and his wife, Kathleen Ann, have a son, Robert, and they live in the northern suburbs.

WILLIAM BUDDY MEYERS, a principal owner of the Wolves who founded the team with Don Levin and Grant Mulvey in January 1994, has been involved in the world of hockey for more than 35 years. He is a former certified agent of the National Hockey League Players’ Association and is past attorney for the Soviet Red Army Hockey Team (CSKA).

He is a practicing attorney and the principal in the law firm of William Buddy Meyers, Ltd. His concentration is in the areas of worker’s compensation and personal injury litigation. Additionally, he is a member of the Illinois Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and Illinois Workers Compensation Lawyers Association; a former director of the Better Boys Foundation and River North Association; and a recipient of the Shomrim Society of Illinois’ Man of the Year Award in 2006. He also supports numerous charitable and environmental organizations.

Meyers is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a juris doctor degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago Kent. He and Jill live in the River North area of Chicago and have five children between them: Justin, Lindsey, Zak, Brad, and Leslie.

8 OW N E R S H I P

WE ASKED

”QUIETLY (SMILES). I’M NOT A SCREAMER. DO

I WANT TO? YES. BUT I DON’T WANT TO START

SCREAMING AT REFEREES. I DON’T WANT TO

BE A BAD FAN. SOMETIMES I WALK OUTSIDE.

THAT’S WHEN I’M REALLY MAD. YOU’LL SEE ME

WALK OUTSIDE.”

“DURING THE GAME WHEN WE SCORE

OR ARE WINNING, I WATCH THE FANS.

THEIR EXCITEMENT, SMILES, AND

SCREAMING CALM ME DOWN. IF THE

GAME IS VERY CLOSE OR WE ARE

LOSING, I SOMETIMES WALK THE

HALLWAYS DURING THE GAME TO

RELAX – AND SOMETIMES SEE DON

WALKING AS WELL.”

HOW DO YOU RELEASE YOUR EMOTIONS DURING THE COURSE OF A GAME?

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WENDELL YOUNG enters his fifth season at the helm of the Wolves hockey operations department. The team has compiled a .590 winning percentage (167-111-15-19) during his tenure as general manager, which includes capturing the regular-season West Division title in 2009-10 and the regular-season Midwest Division title in 2011-12.

The 50-year-old is the Wolves’ all-time leader among goaltenders in games played (322), wins (169), saves (8,467), minutes (17,912) and shutouts (16), and was a member of Chicago’s 1998 and 2000 Turner Cup championship squads. His jersey number “1” was the first number retired by the Wolves on Dec. 1, 2001.

The Halifax, Nova Scotia, native, who was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in 2007, is the only man in hockey history to have won all four North American championships: the Stanley Cup, Turner Cup, Calder Cup and Memorial Cup. He captured the Stanley Cup in 1991 and 1992 as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the 1988 Calder Cup with the Hershey Bears, the 1982 Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers and the 1998 and 2000 Turner Cups with the Wolves. He also was behind the bench as a coach for the Wolves 2008 Calder Cup victory.

Young played 18 seasons of professional hockey, including 10 in the National Hockey League. He compiled a 59-86-12 record in 187 games with the Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Penguins. He also served as goaltending coach for the Calgary Flames from 2001-2003.

BILL BENTLEY enters his fifth season as assistant general manager and 20th season with the Wolves organization.

One of a handful of people who has been with the organization since the team’s inception in 1994, Bentley has been instrumental in the hockey operations department for more than 17 years, which includes all four championship campaigns.

The Chicago native joined the organization as a statistician in 1994 and was promoted to team services manager a year later. The 43-year-old spent 12 seasons as the director of hockey administration, handling team travel, immigration and accounting for the hockey operations department, before assuming the assistant general manager role in August 2009.

A graduate of Quincy College, Bentley served as the Director of Media Relations for the Chicago Cheetahs of the now defunct Roller Hockey International during the 1993-94 season.

GENE UBRIACO returns for his 17th term as the Wolves director of hockey operations and fifth as senior advisor following a 10-year professional playing career and 26 seasons as a professional coach.

Ubriaco has been with the Wolves since the 1994-95 inaugural season when he was the team’s first head coach. That year, he guided the Wolves to a 34-33-14 record and a berth in the Turner Cup Playoffs. He compiled a 61-61-20 head coaching record with the Wolves during a three-year span, including a two-game interim stint during the 1996-97 season.

Ubriaco began his coaching career at Lake Superior State University in 1972-73. Four years later, he led the Milwaukee Admirals to the Turner Cup Playoffs, becoming the first International Hockey League coach to lead an expansion team into the postseason.

In 1988-89, Ubriaco moved on to the National Hockey League to coach the Pittsburgh Penguins. Under his tutelage, the Penguins shattered several team records that season and advanced to the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a seven-year absence.

The Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, native recorded 162 goals, 258 assists and 420 points in 456 AHL games spanning nine seasons, which includes a career-high 42 goals and 86 points during the 1965-66 season with the Hershey Bears. Ubriaco spent his final three years as a player in the NHL with the Penguins (1967-68), the Oakland Seals (1968-69) and the Chicago Blackhawks (1969-70).

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JOHN ANDERSON enters his 12th season as Wolves head coach after being re-hired to the position on July 16, 2013.

Anderson returns to the Wolves with four years of National Hockey League experience, which includes two years as head coach of the Atlanta Thrashers from 2008-10. He served most recently as an assistant coach with the Phoenix Coyotes from 2011-13.

The 56-year-old Anderson guided the Wolves to four championships during his first tenure with the Wolves: the Calder Cup in 2002 and 2008 and the Turner Cup in 1998 and 2000. He is the team’s all-time leader in wins (506) and postseason victories (105).

Prior to joining the Wolves, Anderson captured the Colonial Cup as head coach of the Quad City Mallards of the Colonial Hockey League. He began his coaching career with the Winston-Salem Mammoths in 1995-96, leading them to the Southern Hockey League Finals and a 30-23-1 regular-season record.

Toronto’s first pick (11th overall) in the 1977 amateur draft, Anderson played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Maple Leafs (1977-85), Quebec Nordiques (1985-86), and Hartford Whalers (1986-89). The Toronto native registered five 30-goal campaigns in the NHL, including four straight from 1981-85. Anderson’s most productive offensive season came in 1982-83, when he paced Toronto with 80 points (31G, 49A) in 80 games.

Anderson ranks 14th in Maple Leafs history with 189 goals and 20th with 393 points. Overall, he amassed 282 goals and 631 points in 814 career NHL games, along with 9 goals and 27 points in 37 career Stanley Cup Playoff contests.

DAVE ALLISON enters his first season with the Wolves after being named assistant coach on July 16, 2013. He brings 18 years of professional coaching experience to Chicago.

Allison served most recently as head coach of the American Hockey League’s Peoria Rivermen, where he led the team to a 33-35-5-3 record in 2012-13.

Prior to joining the Rivermen, the 54-year-old Allison spent time as a scout with the Pittsburgh Penguins and worked as a part of the player development team with the Colorado Avalanche.

Allison has accumulated a 232-214-25-28 mark during his seven seasons and 499 games as an AHL head coach with Peoria (2012-13), Iowa (2005-08), Milwaukee (2001-02), and Prince Edward Island (1994-96).

The Fort Francis, Ontario, native also had a 25-game stint as the interim head coach of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators during the 1995-96 season.

Allison enjoyed a 10-year professional career as a defenseman in the AHL, IHL, and NHL. He amassed 119 assists, 144 points, and 1,473 penalty minutes in 452 career AHL games with Nova Scotia, Sherbrooke, Newmarket, and Halifax spanning eight seasons from 1979 to 1985 and 1987-89. He skated in three NHL games with Montreal during the 1983-84 campaign.

SCOTT ALLEN enters his first season with the Wolves after being named assistant coach on July 16, 2013. He brings 17 years of professional coaching experience to Chicago.

Allen served most recently as Dave Allison’s assistant with the Peoria Rivermen during the 2012-13 campaign. Prior to joining Peoria, he spent three seasons in the National Hockey League as an assistant coach with the New York Islanders.

The 47-year-old Allen entered the coaching ranks as an assistant coach with the ECHL’s Johnstown Chiefs in 1996 and was promoted to head coach of the franchise halfway through the 1997-98 season. He would serve as the Chiefs head coach for four more years before moving to the American Hockey League in 2002.

Allen spent two seasons with the San Antonio Rampage (2002-04), where he split time as an assistant coach and then a head coach. He then served as an assistant coach in Lowell, Omaha, and Quad City from 2004-09.

The New Bedford, Mass., native spent 10 years as a player in professional hockey as the former center competed in the All American Hockey League, Atlantic Coast Hockey League, Colonial Hockey League, Central Hockey League and the ECHL.

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ON THE BRINK

Barely out of his teens, and new to North America, Dmitrij Jaskin is ready to show the hockey world he can hang with the big boys

BY KRISTEN SHILTON | PHOTOS BY ROSS DETTMAN

being picked No. 1 overall in an entry draft is about as good as it gets. Unless you’re Chicago Wolves forward Dmitrij Jaskin, in which case being one league’s first selection wasn’t nearly as thrilling as being another’s 41st.

“I was drafted with first pick in the Kontinental Hockey League’s 2010 draft (by Siber Novosibirsk) and I didn’t even know,” Jaskin said. “I was at school studying and my father just called me and said I was drafted first overall and I was just like, ‘all right.’ I knew something of the National Hockey League draft when I went the first time (in 2011). I got to Minneapolis the day before the draft, after like 24 hours of traveling, and it was fun and crazy. I hoped I would go in the first round but then I slipped to the second round when the St. Louis Blues took me, but I didn’t care. It was great. I was happy.”

The 20-year-old Omsk, Russia native has been humming along contently since. An accomplished tennis player in Europe, Jaskin chose to pursue hockey when it became too difficult to do both at a high level. Following his selection by the Blues, Jaskin returned to the Czech Republic for another year of minor hockey with Slavia Praha HC, registering one goal in 30 contests. When that season ended, Jaskin had a choice: leave the country he and his family had lived in since he was eight months old or join the Quebec Major Junior League’s Moncton Wildcats in Moncton, New Brunswick. It wasn’t easy, but Jaskin wanted to do what was best for his career like his father, Alexej, had done before him.

“My father got some opportunities to play hockey

in the Czech Republic so our whole family moved from Russia to support that,” Jaskin said. “I lived all my life in Czech and I spent all my time at the hockey rink. I loved it right away. I was probably 2 or 3 when I started playing. I would spend all day at the rink and watch every game. I went to Canada because I figured it was still a pro league and they have a lot of players there, plus I would get to play more. I wouldn’t just be on the ice six minutes a night. The Blues wanted me closer, too, so they didn’t have to fly to Czech all the time. Bottom line, I needed to be on the ice more.”

Jaskin got his wish with the Wildcats, exploding for 46 goals and 99 assists in 51 regular season games. Still, despite the game being the same, the Great White North was a major departure for him culturally. When he arrived, Jaskin was fluent in Russian and Czech but didn’t know much English beyond the basics.

“I got to Canada, and I was alone,” he said. “Another Russian guy didn’t come for like two weeks. I had to learn as much as I could. I went to school and tried to speak to guys. The others helped me a lot, and the family I lived with helped me a lot. They said we had to go to school so we just went and tried to learn to speak English well. Canada is also a young country. There’s not a lot of history. I was used to a lot of history, coming from Prague and Russia. Everything was so new. The people were really nice and it gave me a chance to just concentrate on hockey and nothing else. There was nothing else to do. I just played hockey and enjoyed life.”

With no distractions, Jaskin was free to make the most of his only junior season in North America before St. Louis began getting him acclimated in its system full time. Some things, like playing on a smaller ice surface than he was used to, didn’t faze him. Other challenges gave the year a “sink or swim” feel.

“It was a little bit tough for me at first to adjust to how they did things in the QMJHL,” Jaskin said. “It was kind of hard playing hockey and going to school and traveling around this big city. The people there helped me and I was happy to have the opportunity. The people and coaches showed me how much harder I had to work if I wanted to get playing time in juniors. It was a big

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turning point for me.”So big in fact, it gave St. Louis the confidence to call up the then-

19 year old to their American Hockey League affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen, after the Wildcats were bounced from the first round of their playoffs. Jaskin never made it to Peoria, though. Instead he got on a plane to Nashville.

“I remember waiting in Moncton and it being really hard because we had just lost and everyone was really sad and I was ready to go home,” he said. “But my agent told me to wait because I was going to sign a contract (with St. Louis) and so I waited for like nine days while they sorted things out with the player visa. I had told (my agent) to buy me a ticket home because I was ready for a vacation and I hadn’t been skating at all but I was finally flown to Nashville where the Blues were playing and joined the team. It was a hard couple of days. They just started trying to get me in shape right away.”

Unlike many teenage prospects, Jaskin was thrown directly into the fire with St. Louis, suiting up in two of their final regular-season games. Playing seven or eight minutes in each at the game’s highest level was an exhilarating experience.

“I was so nervous in those first games,” he said. “There’s a lot of pressure. You don’t want to make a mistake. I love the crowd, I love all the people around, but you’re on the ice and you can’t make a mistake. That’s the pressure. It was all right. I felt pretty good in the second game at Colorado. We had some good chances. It was a good time and a good experience being with the guys for a month.”

When the Blues were jettisoned from the playoffs by the L.A. Kings and the offseason program began, Jaskin began to see how the system worked with NHL clubs and knew he wanted more opportunities to be a contributor.

“I spent almost all of last summer in St. Louis,” he said. “I was there for a long time. I was getting ready. Then, about 50 new players were around. It was all about practice and we had to stay on it and show the coaches why you should be in the lineup. I tried my best to do that.”

“What makes Dmitrij such a good prospect is he combines being a skill player who can produce points on offense with being responsible on defense,” said Kevin McDonald, assistant general manager of the Blues. “He makes a great second effort and you can count on him not to let his defensive game fall down while he’s out there on a shift. He had a solid showing in the NHL when he was here. Going from junior hockey to the NHL, the thing he understood is that a lot of his success comes through effort and hard work, which shows up in his ability to create turnovers and things like that. He has done that at every level, including his brief time in the NHL.”

Jaskin has had to stare down his share of critics along the way. Knocked for his lack of success when going up against bigger, older players, Jaskin takes the criticism in stride and with a good deal of pragmatism.

“When people say that about me, it’s probably because the guys who are playing in the NHL used to play at the American Hockey League level, and it’s harder to get on that NHL level to play against them when you haven’t been there much before,” he said. “It’s probably true what they say because I’ve never played against these guys, so it’s going to take some time to adjust. But hopefully I’ll get there. There are different styles of hockey, for sure (between North America and Europe). It’s more offensive and there are more shots taken here. It’s different, but it’s still just everyone out there on the ice. You just have to play.”

Two years ago, Jaskin faced every player’s nightmare when he was terrifyingly – but as it turned out, briefly – taken away from the

AN UNEX-PECTED BLIP

“I WAS SO NERVOUS IN THOSE FIRST GAMES. THERE’S A LOT OF PRESSURE.”

“I STOPPED THE BLEEDING TO SEE IF I COULD GET STITCHES IN THERE.” - KEVIN KACER, ATHLETIC TRAINER

CALL IT AN UNLUCKY BOUNCE.

During practice on Dec. 17, the Wolves were working on a tap-in drill, crowding around the net and corralling wayward pucks. When forward Michael Davies took a shot toward the scrum, the puck ricocheted off the crossbar and smacked Dmitrij Jaskin in the face. Fortunately, head athletic trainer Kevin Kacer was nearby.

“Dmitrij’s lip was cut basically in half,” Kacer said. ”I stopped the bleeding to see if I could get stitches in there. Dmitrij was in a fair amount of pain. At first he was concerned he was going to lose a tooth because the area was bleeding so badly. When you cut your lip it can look like a much worse injury than it is. So when guys look in the mirror right after a puck to the face, it can be scary.”

While the hit caught him off-guard, Jaskin said the shock wore off quickly.

“These things happen in games and practice all the time,” he said. “It’s no big deal. I got 10 stitches in my lip and that was it.”

The injury meant Jaskin’s previously planned Breakaway photo shoot hadto be shuttered on account of an emergency dentist appointment, and he was instructed to wear a full face mask on the ice to protect the area. Kacer says if all goes well, though, he won’t be left with much of a scar.

“When the wound can be closed easily and you can suture straight across, there typically won’t be a scar,” he said. “It’s a highly vascular area of the body so it does a good job of healing itself. Dmitrij will have some sort of scar but nothing major, which is good.”

game. While playing in Prague, Jaskin went one-on-one with another player and came out on the losing end of a corner battle for a puck.

“That was a bad thing, the injury,” Jaskin said. “I was playing one-on-one with a guy in the corner and he came in there and just killed me. He took both knees out and my left knee was crushed right away. But that was something that just happens sometimes. It’s hockey. I learned a lot from that too, because you see it happen to others but until it’s you, you don’t know what it’s like. I just had to start again from the bottom. I had surgery and took like a month to (recover) and then I was back practicing and playing again. When a very bad injury happens, you just have to recover and start again.”

Coming to Chicago has been a new beginning for Jaskin as well, as he adjusts to higher expectations and the typical growing pains of a player transitioning to a new league.

“He’s probably the most talented guy on our team overall,” Wolves head coach John Anderson said. “He hasn’t found everything yet though. His fault is that he likes to hold onto the puck for too long. But he also makes a lot of good plays on his own, so I give him a little bit of that leeway. Because of how he plays he sometimes has to stay on the ice for too long, but he’s in great shape so he can stay out there longer. I think once he gets his shooting where it needs to be, he’s really going to grow as a player.”

As he works on that, he’s also getting used to the biggest city he’s ever lived in. If Moncton (population: 64,000) was intimidating for him at first, Chicago was a major departure.

But despite the change of scenery, Jaskin has carried on as before, taking solace in multiple phone calls home a week and his live-in girlfriend, who came from the Czech Republic to keep him company.

“I just try to make the most of what time I’m not at practice,” he said. “I watch movies. Sometimes I go shopping. I’ve been down to Chicago a couple times. We went to the Willis Tower and that was cool. I like Twitter. It’s like a newspaper on your phone. You can read about whatever you want and sometimes people write something funny or nice. I spend a lot of time on

the phone with my best friends and family back home. I’m getting used to being away from them.”

While he doesn’t get much downtime while in season, Jaskin is grateful for the chances he’s been given and lights up talking

about what’s on the horizon. As he notes, life has moved quickly so far, but Jaskin knows where it (hopefully) all ends.

“I have the same goal as everyone in here, I think,” he said. “I want to get up to the show and just try to work here in Chicago as much as I can and show (the Blues) I’m that guy who is supposed to go up there. The NHL has a big history and I want to play there and stay there as much as I can.”

“Our hope is that Dmitrij is an NHL player for a long, long time,” McDonald said. “He’s cutting his teeth now and the experience in Chicago is invaluable because everyone knows how tough the AHL is and how difficult that jump from juniors can be. He’s playing in a lot of different situations now, and that’s the best thing for him. That’s what will help a player be in the NHL for years to come down the line.”

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It was the first seven-game series for an International Hockey League championship in 13 years.

The win made the Wolves only the sixth team in the IHL’s 53-year history to come back from a 3-games-to-2 deficit to win in the Finals.

It also put goaltender Wendell Young into the record books. The championship made him the only man in North America to win all five major North American championships – the Robertson Cup, the Memorial Cup, the Calder Cup, the Stanley Cup, and the Turner Cup.

Alexander Semak won the Most Valuable Player award after a come-from-nowhere run in the final stretch of the playoffs.

All of this was compounded by what happened in the stands from the moment the doors opened.

The Horizon was turned up. There was a resonant, powerful

atmosphere in the building; a growing tension that multiplied as the clock moved inexorably toward the puck drop.

STEVE MALTAIS (Former Captain) You could tell in warmups what kind of crowd you were going to have. That night there were 8,000 people in the stands already, and the building was warm. You’re like, “OK. Here we go.”

It only got louder.

STEVE MARTINS (Former Center) It was the sound of it. How loud it was. I remember starting on the blue line and thinking, “This is amazing. There must be 17,000 people here.”

There were 16,701 fans in the building that night, and they were all making noise from the moment they sat down.

JUDD SIROTT (Wolves play-by-play announcer) I thought the whole roof was going to come down.

DON LEVIN (Chairman of the Board) That final game Detroit was absolutely – they were out of their mind. They were expected to win. It was Game 7 and everybody at every level was nervous.

Everyone.

BILL BENTLEY (Assistant General Manager) I remember being very nervous. It was a long series and by the time we got to Game 7 anything could have happened – and actually it did happen – before the game.

COURTNEY MAHONEY (Senior Vice President of Operations) The crowds were massive. Like standing room only. We didn’t know what to do; we wanted to get them all in before the game started, but the walk up was unreal and we were not prepared. But then Wendell (Young) helped us out by delaying the game a little bit.

After both teams finished their warmup period, a scrum developed at the far west side of the rink.

It started with just a few guys from each side who were the last to exit the ice at the end of warm ups. Eventually, both teams piled out of the locker rooms in various stages of undress to fight on the ice and in the tunnel leading to the dressing rooms.

Here the story varies a little depending on whom you ask. One thing is almost universally agreed-upon, though: Detroit tough guy Andy Bezeau started it.

SIROTT Bezeau was a guy who liked to stir the pot. He fired a puck into the Wolves net and Wendell took offense and went after him. Then guys started to pour from the dressing room and haymakers were being thrown. A full-out brawl ensued.

MARTINS: We had maybe four or five guys left on the ice at the end of warmups. I usually stayed around until the end and, as it happens – at the Horizon – we had to go through their warmup to get off the ice. I see something going on by the boards, so I mosey over, and then one of their enforcers literally grabbed me by the neck and was ready to coldcock me. I’m going, “What did I do? What did I do here?”

WAYNE MESSMER (Senior executive vice president) I was sitting down in the corner where the Zamboni rolls in watching. There was already a good buzz going and all of the

sudden we see something happen. Somebody had shot a puck and then the boys start coming out of the locker rooms and you’re going, “Whoa. This is going to be good.” Especially since they weren’t wearing skates. They’re going to be throwing some punches that are going to land. It was one of the best street fights I had ever seen. It was lovely. They were nuts. Nuts.

LEVIN The story I heard is that they shot a puck on our net. Then they started fighting on the ice. That’s when all the guys from the dressing room who had already come off after warmups came back. They were just about naked.

BOB NARDELLA (Former Defenseman) I was in the room already and I just remember running out and that a lot of guys had their skates off. It’s a superstitious thing, but if you’re going to shoot the puck in the other guys’ net then you have to expect to have consequences.

WENDELL YOUNG (General Manager) I was injured. Our goalie, Stephane Beauregard, was playing Game 7, and he was trying to get off the ice. But then a bunch of Detroit’s tough guys wouldn’t let him off the ice and three of our guys – me, Stevie Martins, and Dougie Barrault – were left on the other end of the ice, and I’m going, “Dougie, something’s going on down there.”

CRAIG KOGUT (Head Equipment Manager) I was right there. Beauregard, our goalie at the time, always wanted to be the last guy off the ice, so right where he was supposed to come off, Andy Bezeau took a shot and nailed Beauregard. That’s when all hell broke loose.

YOUNG I get down there and cross-check Bezeau into the boards. Their trainer was watching and he runs down to their dressing room to yell for all their guys.

SIROTT The referee – I don’t think even he was in his full gear at that point – he comes out on the ice. The cops come out on the ice. Emotions had reached a fever pitch.

It was Young and Bezeau who were the main

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HORIZON ON JUNE 15, 1998.

THE WOLVES SHUT OUT THE DETROIT VIPERS 3-0 TO CAPTURE THEIR

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protagonists of this story, however, and as it turns out, the fight carried over into the next season.

YOUNG Bezeau and this other tough guy had me in the corner. I still had my blocker on and Bezeau goes, “I’m gonna kill you.” I still have my blocker and even though he’s gonna get me right between the eyes, I’m gonna be able to get one in. I know that. Then Wayne Presley, who I played with in Juniors, slides over. He was their team captain. He told Bezeau to let me go. Bezeau goes, “No, I’m gonna kill him.” Wayne says, “I’m telling you, Bezeau, let him go.” And he does! I go, “Wayne, I owe you one.”

That next season, the first game against Detroit, Bezeau slides over and he goes, “You know I’m getting you tonight, right?” I said to him, “Andy, I’m gonna tell you one thing: I’d be very disappointed if you didn’t try.” The whole game, every time I touched the puck, I’d see him coming for me and I’d just get out of the way. He never did get me back for what went on.

There’s also Kevin Cheveldayoff’s version of events, a version he tells despite the video evidence and the police presence.

CHEVELDAYOFF Nope, never happened. (Laughs)

It did happen, though, and it ended up being a very good thing for the Chicago Wolves.

STEVE MALTAIS Everybody’s out there in flip-flops and no gear on, but fortunately nobody got hurt and nobody got tossed. If anything, that just fired the guys up more. We had the extra person in the building – the crowd – and they were into it and loud.

YOUNG It held up the game for 45 minutes. That got everyone in the building! We were sitting in the dressing room and guys’ shirts were all ripped and it’s basically like, “Hey, you know what? Let them worry about this.” We wanted to go forward and worry about the game.

NARDELLA I just remember Stephane Beauregard coming into the dressing room and saying, “They should not have pissed me off.” Sure enough, he didn’t let a goal in all game, so whatever they did, it worked against them.

MESSMER Everybody was charged and in the right mood after that. When you sing a battle song, you’re ready to do battle.

KEVIN KACER I just remember going back to my training room and thinking, “We just won the Turner Cup.” We just won, because they never should have woken the sleeping bear.

It was a wolf. And when it woke, it roared – but for a little more than two periods that day in June at the Horizon, the teams were scoreless.

BENTLEY There was no score the first two periods, and it could have gone either way. We could have had the championship or we could have been crying.

They would cry, but only happy tears. After two periods, and two intermissions,

Chicago native Bob Nardella tossed a quick pass to Chris Marinucci – who was posted up right in front of the Vipers goal – and suddenly the Wolves had the advantage with less than a period to go.

SIROTT Early in the third period, Bobby Nardella wheeled up the ice. He cut in across the blue line and went to the middle of the ice. There was a rebound. Nardella chased it down to the far corner, and just threw it – maybe a slight look – but threw it to center ice and there was Chris Marinucci, and that was his offense. He was a money player in those situations. You couldn’t move him out of the way and he pounded it home. One-nothing.

The place erupted. Absolutely erupted.

KACER It took forever to get that first goal it seemed like. When we did I knew we just iced it. We were going to win a championship. The feelings you have are just so intense. I was laughing. I was crying.

NARDELLA I had a semi-breakaway, actually. It was on a line change and I beat the defenseman and I was getting ready to shoot and he dove from behind me and just knocked the puck into the corner. I flung it to Marinucci as quick as I could and their defensemen – they were sleeping for a second and he just tapped it in – I was gliding past the Detroit bench when the puck went in, and they were just – the blood fell out of their face. I knew we won.

The clock would disagree. There was still time left, and the Wolves were determined to make the most of it, eventually potting two more goals.

SIROTT Semak and Martins came out. Martins found Semak – who had a monster playoff run that year – he was just a monster. He had this little hook of a stick. Right on the end. Worst curve ever. Semak buried it and it was two-nothing less than a minute later. You knew, at this point, that the game was over. This game was absolutely over. That didn’t mean Detroit wasn’t going to come, but they were absolutely staggered at that point. I think we added an empty-netter at the end of the game, and then the celebration was on.

For the first time as a franchise – four years after their inception - the Wolves had a cup to tend to. A cup to lift. A cup to fill, and to drink from. A cup they had fought for; one they had left every piece of themselves on the ice for; a cup they deserved – and they were intent on celebrating its victory.

MALTAIS As a kid that’s what you dream of. You’re asking yourself all of these questions. How heavy is it going to be? What is it going to be like? What is our routine? Who’s getting it next? The first year you play you think it’s going to happen every year, but then you realize that you never really know when you’re going to get that chance.

GENE UBRIACO (Senior Advisor) I think it was probably the biggest celebration we ever had. Wendell was in the dressing room with no shirt on, passing the cup around. I’ll never forget that.

KOGUT It was a mess. It took me two days to clean up. Are you kidding me? It was like a bomb went off (in the dressing room), but it was well worth it.

SIROTT It was great to get an opportunity to raise the Turner Cup. Here are Don Levin and Buddy Meyers, two guys who brought this team to Chicago with the idea that a lot of people love the game, but at the time there were no tickets to the Blackhawks. They were sold out, and there was a great love of hockey in this town. They started from the ground up. To go from one game over .500 in 94-95 and, by sheer force of will, win a championship in Game 7 before a packed crowd at the Rosemont Horizon four years later - It was a stunning moment. Pulse-pounding.

The celebration lasted long into the night, but the next day it was business as usual.

KOGUT You knew what direction Don wanted to take the organization. He was hungry. He wanted to win. And he was going to make sure we had the talent to win. I didn’t think it was going to come that quick, but after it did it was like, “How many more are we going to get?”

UBRIACO It was finding a way of getting it done. Then once you’ve done it, boy is it ever something you want to do again. I can remember after we won the Cup, Chevy and I, our first meeting was about starting again, setting a new goal. You never think of the past. I think you look back a short while, but you look ahead forever.

They would do it again. Just two years later.This time, they faced another Michigan-based rival in the finals, and they would win in their house.

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PLAYER GP G A PTS PIMSteve Maltais 839 454 497 951 1,061

Rob Brown 369 157 326 483 483

Darren Haydar 342 128 240 368 257

Jason Krog 282 98 244 342 106

Brett Sterling 302 167 141 308 384

Bob Nardella 476 59 239 298 331

Steve Larouche 203 84 144 228 168

Chris Marinucci 240 99 121 220 77

Steve Martins 262 64 129 193 307

Derek MacKenzie 377 83 101 184 441

GOALS Steve Maltais 60 1996-97

ASSISTS Rob Brown 91 1995-96

POINTS Rob Brown 143 1995-96

PENALTY MIN. Kevin MacDonald 336 1994-95

PLUS/MINUS Arturs Kulda +47 2009-10

WINS Kari Lehtonen 38 2004-05

SHUTOUTS Wendell Young 6 1999-2000 Matt Climie 6 2012-13

SINGLE-SEASON FRANCHISE RECORDS ALL-TIME POINTS LEADERS

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During John Anderson’s first stint

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2008), his teams set single-

season franchise records for wins

(55 in 1997-98), points (114 in

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Goaltender Matt Climie set two franchise

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Rob Brown, who donned a Wolves jersey for five

seasons between 1994 and 2003, set the franchise’s

single-season record for points (143) in 1995-96.

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SPEARINGCalled for using the stick like a spear.

TRIPPINGCalled for using the stick, arm or leg to cause an opponent to trip or fall.

UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCTCalled for the abuse of an official or other such misconduct.

HOOKINGCalled for using stick or blade to hook opponent.

INTERFERENCECalled for having contact with an opponent not in possession of the puck.

MISCONDUCTCalled for an infraction that warrants a more serious penalty than a standard minor or major penalty.

ROUGHINGCalled for engaging in fisticuffs or shoving of a level that is not worthy of a major penalty.

SLASHINGCalled for swinging the stick at an opponent.

BOARDING Called for any action which causes opponent to be thrown violently into the boards.

CHARGINGCalled for taking three or more strides before checking opponent.

CROSS-CHECKINGCalled for hitting opponent with both hands on the stick and no part of the stick on the ice.

DELAYED PENALTYCall is made when the penalized team gains control of the puck or upon a stop in play.

ELBOWINGCalled when using the elbow to impede an opponent.

HIGH-STICKINGCalled for making contact with an opponent when carrying the stick above the shoulder.

HOLDINGCalled for using the hands, arms or legs to hold an opponent.

ICINGCalled when a player on his team’s side of the red center line shoots the puck down the ice, it crosses the red goal line at any point (other than the goal) and is touched first by an opposing player other than the goalie.*

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ICING THE PUCK Icing is when a player on his team’s side of the red center line shoots the puck all the way down the ice and it crosses the red goal line at any point (other than the goal). Icing is not permitted when teams are at equal strength or on the power play. When this occurs, play is stopped and the puck is returned to the other end of the ice for a faceoff in the offending team’s zone. Icing the puck is not called:

> If the goalie leaves the crease to play the puck, even if he does not touch the puck.

> If an official rules an opposing player could have played the puck before it crossed the red goal line.

> An official may wave off the icing call if he deems it was an attempted pass.

SHOT ON GOALA shot on goal is a shot that would enter the goal if it is not stopped by the goaltender. A shot on goal must result in either a goal or a save.

PENALTIESPenalties are classified into three categories: minor, major and misconduct. For a minor penalty, players are required to serve two minutes in the penalty box while their team plays short-handed. A minor penalty will expire if the opposing team scores while on the power play. Major penalties require a player to serve five minutes in the penalty box and only expire at the end of that time. Misconduct penalties vary in length.

POWER PLAYS / PENALTY KILL A team is on the power play when one team has more players on the ice than the other team because a player is serving a penalty. Conversely, the team with fewer players is on the penalty kill.

OFFSIDESA team is offside when any member of the attacking team precedes the puck over the defending team’s blueline. The position of the player’s skate — and not that of his stick — is the determining factor. If both skates are over the blueline before the puck, the player is offside. If he has only one skate over the blueline and one on it, he is onside.

OVERTIMEAny regular-season game that ends regulation play with a tie score will go into a five-minute sudden-death overtime period. If at the end of that overtime period the game remains tied, the game will then go into a shootout. During the playoffs, there will not be a shootout and overtime periods will be 20 minutes in length.

SHOOTOUTAny regular-season game that ends overtime play with a tie score will go into a shootout. A shootout is a series of penalty shots in which each team is allowed five attempts to score in alternating fashion. If after five attempts the teams remain tied, the shootout will continue to alternate shots until one team fails to match the attempt of the other. The winner of the shootout will be awarded one goal.

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LEADING AFTER THE SECOND PERIODLast season, the Wolves won 80 percent of games in which they were leading after two periods.

PENALTY KILLLast season, the Wolves won 61 percent of games in which they did not allow the opposing team to score a power-play goal.

POWER PLAYLast season, the Wolves won 48 percent of games in which they scored at least one power-play goal and 40 percent of games when they scored two or more.

SCORING FIRSTLast season, the Wolves won 62 percent of games in which they scored the first goal. SHOTS ON GOALLast season, the Wolves outshot their opponents in 32 of their 76 regular-season games, and won 16 of those games (16-11-4-1).

AVG. GOALS PER GAME 2.68

AVG. GOALS AGAINST PER GAME 2.72

POWER PLAY GOALS SCORED 51

POWER PLAY RATING 17.1%

PENALTY KILL RATING 80.3%

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“I put the Chicago flag on the same shoulder of the jersey as Chicago police officers wear it,” Moritz said. “It’s a statement that we are one of Chicago’s professional sports teams. The Chicago flag also pairs well with the four stars, which for us also represent our championships.”

Beyond displaying a healthy amount of Chicago – and Chicago Wolves - pride, the patriotic blue jerseys, accented with red and white, were made with each First Responders branch in mind. On the left shoulder of the jersey sit four symbols to represent each one, tied together with the iconic firefighters mark.

“The jerseys are classic and clean,” Moritz said. “I wanted them to coincide with the Wolves throwback year and the launch of the alternative 20-year jersey. The reverse name plate keeps us within the same vein as the 20th season, and that’s also a bit of a novelty element as I don’t think any of the other commemorative jerseys have done that.”

Coming up with something fresh year after year is a challenge Moritz relishes. She has creative freedom to take the jersey in whatever direction she chooses and over the years has acquired ample knowledge about the whole process, all the way to how it’s actually created.

“Making the design for the jersey definitely gets more challenging every year, but because the commemorative jerseys have a different theme each season, that usually helps with the initial direction,” she said. “Becoming more aware of physical design processes has changed how I go about things too. Learning what’s doable in sewing, sublimation, and embroidery really matters. Those considerations have been the biggest factors in altering the design work through the years.”

Most of all, though, Moritz just looks to capture the spirit of the thing so to speak, whatever it may be.

“I like to find a unique twist or element to hold on to, which may not always be what first comes to mind,” she said. “It’s become a bit of a game as to what the hidden details are or reasoning behind what is included in the final jersey design. It doesn’t have to be obvious, it just has to represent the theme well.”

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In 1989-90, John Anderson played a nine-game stint in what European Country?

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