Tale of the Tape: Dec. 1, 2017 vs. Rockford

• 2: If history holds true, center Wade Megan is ready to roll and score goals. On Sunday, the 27-year-old netted his first two tallies for the 2017-18 campaign. Last season when the Canton, New York native earned the American Hockey League’s top honor for goal-scoring, he recorded 26 of his 33 goals following Thanksgiving. Sunday’s two goals mark a potential changing of the guard for the previously snakebitten sharp-shooter.

• 5: Sunday’s game against the Iowa Wild marked the quarter-point of the regular season for the Chicago Wolves. Through 19 games, Chicago has collected a 5-10-3-1 record and those five wins are the fewest for the club through the first 19 games of the season. The team’s previous low for wins through 19 games was six during the 2005-06 campaign. How rare is this start for the Wolves? The 2005-06 and 2010-11 seasons — plus this season — are the only three years in which the Wolves’ points percentage stood at less than .500 through the first 19 contests.

• 10: On Sunday, forward Teemu Pulkkinen ended a 10-game goal-scoring drought with his team-leading seventh goal of the year. The tally also gave him 19 points in 19 games. While the Finn hadn’t been finding the back of the net, he was busy setting up his teammate and collected five assists in that span. Pulkkinen also ended another streak on Sunday: With a +2 plus/ minus rating, Pulkkinen avoided his seventh straight game with a negative plus/minus rating.

• 75: During the 2012-13 season, center Brandon Pirri led the American Hockey League with 22 goals and 53 assists for 75 points through 76 games with the Rockford IceHogs and earned the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as the league’s top point-scorer. That was one of four seasons Pirri spent in Rockford after being selected in the second round, 59th overall, of the 2009 NHL Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks. Last time the Chicago Wolves were in Rockford — Nov. 19 — the IceHogs recognized Pirri with an in-game tribute video for his time with the team. If Pirri can keep up his more-than-a-point-per-game scoring pace — and appears in the rest of Chicago’s 57 games — he is on track to match his 2012-13 scoring total.

• 197: One quarter through the 2017-18 campaign and the Chicago Wolves have collected 197 penalty minutes. The Wolves are one of just three teams with fewer than 200 penalty minutes on the season. However, with 197 minutes through 19 games, Chicago owns the lowest average with 10.37 penalty minutes per game. Additionally, the Wolves have just three major infractions and have yet to record any misconduct or match penalties.

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