Checkers Throttle Hartford 7-1, Prolong Level Streak to Eight Video games – Charlotte Checkers Hockey

The Charlotte Checkers (25-12-3-0) stretched their level streak to a season-long eight video games with a dominating 7-1 win over the Hartford Wolf Pack (16-20-4-1) on Wednesday night time at PeoplesBank Arena.
Charlotte is 7-0-1 over their final eight video games, successful 4 consecutive contests.

Nate Smith scored in his 2 hundredth AHL sport at 5:52, ripping a wrist shot over the left shoulder of Wolf Pack netminder Dylan Garand. Nolan Foote and Mike Benning assisted with Smith’s fifth purpose of the season. Ben Steeves recorded his team-leading sixteenth purpose at 16:48, doubling Charlotte’s lead after a pleasant cross from Riese Gaber. Charlotte was outshot 11-8 within the first interval and killed off a double-minor penalty within the sport’s opening minutes.

Brett Chorske gave the Checkers a 3-0 lead along with his seventh purpose of the season, 12:03 into the second interval, firing a shot from the slot by the correct arm of Garand. Gaber supplied one other main help, whereas Eamon Powell snabbed the secondary apple. A little bit below 4 minutes earlier than Chorske’s purpose, Checkers goaltender Cooper Black got here up with a breakaway save on Blake Hillman, preserving a 2-0 lead on the time.

Jack Studnicka nabbed his third purpose of the season, courtesy of a shorthanded breakaway, at 4:12 of the third interval. Studnicka’s purpose was Charlotte’s fifth shorthanded tally of the 2025-26 marketing campaign. Chorske lit the lamp for the second time at 7:50 of the ultimate body, blasting a one-timer between the legs of Garand off a dish from Gaber.

Wilmer Skoog tied Steeves for the group lead in objectives along with his personal sixteenth of the season at 11:58, growing Charlotte’s result in 6-0. Gaber continued his large play with a purpose at 13:12, recording 4 factors in a single sport for the primary time in his AHL profession. Daniel Walcott spoiled Black’s shutout with 1:31 left in regulation, offering the one purpose for Hartford.

Black made 27 saves on 28 photographs in Charlotte’s win, gathering his seventeenth victory of the season.

NOTES

MacKenzie Entwistle skated in his three hundredth skilled sport … Gaber’s earlier document of three factors in a single sport occurred on December 6, 2024, vs. Rochester (two objectives, one help) … Powell has 4 assists in his final three video games and recorded a multi-point effort for the primary time in his AHL profession … The Checkers went 0-for-2 on the ability play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill … Robert Mastrosimone prolonged his private level streak to seven video games with the first help on Skoog’s third-period purpose … Chorske led all skaters with a plus-five score … Ludvig Jansson, Jack Devine, Mitch Vande Sompel, Colton Huard, Kai Schwindt, Hunter St. Martin, Kirill Gerasimyuk and Gracyn Sawchyn have been scratched for Charlotte.