Bradly Nadeau had two goals and an assist, Justin Robidas a goal and three assists, Josiah Slavin a goal and a helper and Evan Vierling and Cal Foote also scored, but the Wolves had to settle for a split of back-to-back games against the Monsters. Felix Unger Sorum and Ryan Suzuki each had three assists as the Wolves ran their road points streak to 12 games.
After the Monsters raced to a 2-0 lead within the first 3 minutes and 28 seconds of the opening period on scores from Owen Sillinger and Corson Ceulemans, it didn’t take long for the Wolves to answer.
Vierling halved Chicago’s deficit at 4:59 with his eleventh goal of the season. The forward jumped on a rebound from Unger Sorum’s shot and sent the puck past Monsters netminder Ivan Fedotov from an acute angle. Unger Sorum and Suzuki recorded assists. The helper extended Suzuki’s points streak to seven games.
Midway through the period, Hunter McKown found the back of the net to give the Monsters a 3-1 lead at the first intermission.
Mikael Pyyhtia’s power play tally early in the second extended Cleveland’s lead to three goals. Not long after, the Wolves had a chance to reduce the deficit when Nadeau was awarded a penalty shot, but the striker was denied by Fedotov and the match remained 4-1.
Cleveland kept coming and made it a four-goal bulge on Justin Pearson’s score before Foote kept the Wolves in it with a late marker.
The defender swooped in and knocked home a rebound from Robidas’ attempt to make it 5-2 in favor of the Monsters. Robidas and Slavin had assists on Foote’s third goal of the season.
In the waning moments of the second, Sillinger notched his second of the game to lift Cleveland to a 6-2 lead entering the third.
A night after a four-goal 6-5 victory over the Monsters, the Wolves staged another dramatic comeback. Chicago was awarded a power play early in the third and Nadeau cashed in after the forward took a pass from Suzuki, skated to the front of the net and ripped a shot past Fedotov to the short side. Suzuki and Unger Sorum had assists.
Another power play opportunity resulted in another Wolves goal as Robidas converted to lift Chicago to a 6-4 lead. Robidas camped on the side of the net and redirected Unger Sorum’s pass from the right circle into the net. On Robidas’ team-leading 20th goal of the season, Unger Sorum and Suzuki had assists.
With 2:27 left in the third and an extra attacker on the ice, Slavin pulled the Wolves within a goal when the captain took a feed from Nadeau and fed Fedotov from the right circle. Nadeau and Robidas had assists.
Nadeau brought the Wolves all the way back when the 2026 AHL All-Star collected a rebound of a Skyler Brind’Amour shot and put the puck into the net from close range with 1:41 left. Brind’Amour and Robidas had assists on Nadeau’s 17th goal of the season, which also came when Chicago’s goal was cleared.
The match went to overtime where Jack Williams ended the match at 32 in the extra stanza to help the Monsters snap a three-game losing skid.
Amir Miftakhov (23 saves) took the loss in goal for the Wolves, while Fedotov (23 saves) picked up the win for the Monsters.
Chicago fell to 19-9-5-5 this season, while Cleveland is 18-14-5-1.
Up Next: The Wolves travel to Rockford to take on the IceHogs on Saturday night (7 p.m.).
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