TORONTO—The Wolves’ dream season has come to an end.
The Wolves fell to the Toronto Marlies 4-3 in Game 5 of the Calder Cup Finals on Friday night at Coca-Cola Coliseum, ending the organization’s bid for a sixth league championship.
Felix Unger Sorum had two goals and an assist and Josiah Slavin also scored but the Wolves came up short as the Marlies won the best-of-seven series 4-1 to capture the second Calder Cup championship in franchise history.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Wolves defenseman Ronan Seeley said. “I don’t think anyone in that room thought we were going to lose. We all had confidence in our group. Every game in the series was a one-goal game. It’s just the way it goes sometimes in hockey. It stings. We wanted to win.”
The Wolves struck first when Unger Sorum scored midway through the opening period. The forward floated a shot from the point that found its way through traffic and past Marlies netminder Artur Akhtyamov. Cal Foote earned an assist.
Slavin’s marker late in the first put the Wolves out in front 2-0. The captain took a cross-ice feed from Unger Sorum and ripped a one-timer from the right circle into the back of the net for Slavin’s third goal of the postseason. Unger Sorum and Noah Philp had assists.
Toronto then reeled off four consecutive goals with Landon Sim, Benoit-Olivier Groulx, Jacob Quillan and Vinni Lettieri all scoring to give the Marlies a 4-2 advantage late into the second period.
Unger Sorum’s second of the game—and fifth of the postseason—came with 6 seconds remaining in the period. With the Wolves on the power play, a mad scramble in front finally resulted in the puck squirting to Unger Sorum, who buried it to give Chicago life heading into the third. Ryan Suzuki and Philp assisted on the play.
Despite applying pressure in the third, the Wolves were unable to generate the tying goal and the season came to an end.
“The end of the season is always going to be hard unless you win the Finals,” Wolves captain Josiah Slavin said. “We had a group in there that we loved each other. Everybody is supporting each other right now.”
Cayden Primeau (19 saves) took the loss in goal for the Wolves while Akhtyamov (27 saves) recorded the win for the Marlies.
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