MILWAUKEE—The Wolves opened a weekend home-and-home series with the Admirals in thrilling fashion Saturday night in Milwaukee.
Justin Robidas scored twice—including the game-winner with seven seconds remaining in the third period—to help the Wolves top the Admirals 2-1 for Chicago’s second consecutive victory. Yaniv Perets made 18 saves in goal for the Wolves to snap Milwaukee’s eight-game winning streak.
“This is the fourth time we’ve played them and they beat us three times so to get this one on the road is pretty special,” Robidas said. “It’s good for our group. It’s our first win streak of the year so we need to build off that.”
Despite the Wolves out-shooting the Admirals 23-12 through two periods, the game was scoreless headed into the third.
Midway through the period, Milwaukee seized the lead when Ozzy Wiesblatt cashed in on the power play.
The Wolves wasted little time in knotting the score at 1-1 when Robidas answered just :08 later. The forward potted his first American Hockey League goal when Robidas took a pass from Tyson Jost and ripped a shot from the right dot that beat Admirals goaltender Matt Murray to the stick side. Jost and Ty Smith were awarded assists on the tying goal.
“Smith saw an opportunity and Jost made a great play cutting to the middle and dished it out and I just had to put it in,” Robidas said. “I’ve been waiting a bit for that so it’s nice to get the first one out of the way.”
With the clock winding down, Robidas scored the winner when the center won a faceoff in the Admirals’ zone and eventually redirected a long shot from Austin Wagner past Murray. Wagner and Domenick Fensore had assists on the winner.
“Faceoffs are huge,” Robidas said. “I take pride in winning those so it’s fun to kind of get rewarded off of that.”
Perets earned the victory while Murray (35 saves) suffered the loss for the Admirals.
Chicago improved to 3-4-1-0 on the season while Milwaukee fell to 8-2-0-0.
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