It took a little longer than planned, but Chicago Wolves forward Steve Maltais scored the 600th goal of his professional career in Wednesday night’s 6-3 loss to Hamilton at Allstate Arena.
Maltais, who scored No. 599 on Dec. 26, has been a member of the Wolves for each of the franchise’s 11 seasons. He has scored 449 goals in a Chicago uniform, and 208 in his American Hockey League career.
The milestone accomplishment was not enough to lift the Wolves to victory, as Gavin Morgan scored three goals and assisted on another to lead Hamilton. Morgan entered the game with two goals in 38 contests on the year.
Steve Ott added a goal and two assists, and Jonathan Ferland and Jason Ward recorded two assists each.
Dan Ellis began the second period in relief of Yann Danis and went on to stop all 10 shots he faced to earn the win.
Elsewhere on Wednesday:
Chris Taylor recorded two goals and an assist and Tom Askey made 29 saves as Rochester shut out Albany, 4-0… Chad Wiseman and Jozef Balej scored two goals each in Hartford’s 5-0 win over Springfield… Mathieu Garon stopped 33 shots for his fifth shutout of the season, a 2-0 decision over Springfield… Matt Stajan (2g, 2a), Kyle Wellwood (1g, 3a) and David Ling (3a) provided the offense and Mikael Tellqvist made 41 saves as St. John’s beat Hershey, 4-2… Chris Kunitz had a goal and an assist to help Cincinnati to a 4-3 shootout win over Cleveland… Mike Smith made 39 saves in Houston’s 2-0 win over Edmonton.
