I can’t say I’ve seen a team so apparently uninterested in clinching their division — even with as meaningless as it is this season. The Wolves had a chance to clinch last week, but three consecutive losses to Iowa and Grand Rapids have made the last games of the season actually mean something for Chicago.
As things stand, the Wolves’ magic number is four, in terms of clinching the division. The Cleveland Monsters are hot on the Wolves’ trail, with a points percentage of 0.635, in comparison to 0.683 for the Wolves. Each team has three games remaining: Cleveland finishes its season with three straight games against the Grand Rapids Griffins, while the Wolves have one against Grand Rapids before finishing with a home-and-home against the Rockford IceHogs.