Nadeau scores winner late in overtime to cap Wolves’ comeback

The Chicago Wolves reeled off five unanswered goals to stage an epic comeback and defeat the Monsters 6-5 in overtime Wednesday night in Cleveland.

Bradly Nadeau scored two goals — including the winner with 31 seconds remaining in overtime — and added an assist, Josiah Slavin had a goal and an assist and Cal Foote, Ryan Suzuki and Skyler Brind’Amour also tallied as the Wolves roared back from a 5-1 second-period deficit to extend their points streak to five games.

Felix Unger Sorum and Jusso Valimaki each added two assists in the Wolves’ win that opened a set of back-to-back games between the teams. Hunter McKown had a goal and three assists for the Monsters, who dropped their third in a row.

It was all Cleveland in the opening period as the Monsters raced to a 3-0 lead on goals by Corson Ceulemans, McKown and Roman Ahcan.

The Wolves finally answered early in the second on Slavin’s third goal of the season. The captain dug the puck out of the corner, wheeled toward the net and fired a shot from the bottom of the right circle past Cleveland netminder Ivan Fedotov to the glove side. Evan Vierling was awarded an assist on the score.

The Monsters didn’t let up and opened a 5-1 advantage after Justin Pearson and Caleb McDonald found the back of the net.