Chicago Wolves head into all-star break with a loss

In their final game before the American Hockey League All-Star break, the Chicago Wolves fell to the Colorado Eagles 6-2 on Saturday night in Loveland, Colorado.

Noel Gunler and Juuso Valimaki scored but it wasn’t enough as the Wolves settled for a split of the back-to-back games between the teams. With the loss Chicago saw its 15-game road points streak snapped.

After a scoreless opening period, the Eagles came alive in the second and raced to a 5-0 advantage on goals by Alex Barre-Boulet, Tye Felhaber, Taylor Makar, Danil Gushchin and Wyatt Aamodt.

The Wolves stopped the bleeding on Gunler’s power-play score with 1 minute, 4 seconds remaining in the second. While sliding on his knees, Evan Vierling fed Gunler with a pass and the forward shoveled the puck past Colorado netminder Kyle Keyser to the glove side from in close. Vierling and Domenick Fensore recorded assists on Gunler’s seventh goal of the season.