Bradly Nadeau Named Fortune Tires AHL January Player of the Month

Bradly Nadeau was named the Fortune Tires “Expect More” AHL Player of the Month for January after piling up eight goals and 10 assists for 18 points in 13 games, a stretch that included two game-winning goals, a seven-game scoring streak and five multi-point efforts that helped Chicago go 7-3-1-2. The award was announced as team and league releases rolled out around Feb. 2, 2026.

Nadeau’s January featured a string of high-impact performances that changed games. He scored a power-play goal vs. Texas on Jan. 10, had two assists in a 5-4 win at Milwaukee on Jan. 16, and posted a goal and two assists in a 5-2 win over Rockford on Jan. 17. He was central to back-to-back Cleveland comebacks, recording two goals and an assist in a 6-5 overtime win on Jan. 21 and repeating two goals and an assist in a 7-6 shootout loss on Jan. 22. He capped the month by scoring the game-winning goal and adding an assist in a 5-2 road win over league-leading Grand Rapids on Jan. 30.

Chicago and AHL materials put Nadeau’s season totals at 18 goals and 22 assists for 40 points in 32 games with a plus-24 rating, tying him for third in the AHL in plus-minus. The Wolves’ release also noted Nadeau captured two AHL Player of the Week awards for the weeks of Dec. 7 and Jan. 25 and was selected to his first AHL All-Star Classic, underscoring his sustained production beyond January’s hot stretch.

Nadeau’s NHL experience appears in the team materials and league summaries. The Chicago Wolves release says he has skated in eight NHL games and scored his first NHL goal on Oct. 30 against the New York Islanders; a separate NHL excerpt lists two goals in eight NHL games. Those dual facts reflect the different snapshots circulating with the award notices and point to a prospect whose AHL momentum is testing NHL ice time opportunities.

Fortune Tires, identified in the AHL release as the Official Tire of the AHL, sponsors the monthly honor and will contribute $500 to Nadeau’s charity of choice for the award; Fortune Tires also commits $2,500 to the Player of the Year’s charity. The physical award presentation, per the original brief, was handed to Nadeau by Wendell Young of the Chicago Wolves and Adam Perkins, Regional Sales Manager, linking team leadership and sponsor presence to the charitable component.

The business and cultural implications are immediate: Nadeau, a 20-year-old St-François-de-Madawaska, New Brunswick native and the Carolina Hurricanes’ 2023 first-round pick No. 30 overall, follows a breakout 2024-25 season that produced 58 points on 32 goals and 26 assists in 64 games and earned AHL All-Rookie and Top Prospects honors. His January heroics, the comeback nights in Cleveland and a late-month game-winner at Grand Rapids, fuel ticket sales and regional interest while giving the Hurricanes a tangible prospect pathway to evaluate between AHL success and NHL readiness.

The Wolves published their release on Feb. 2, 2026; Chicago’s next trip sends the team to Colorado to face the Eagles on Friday at 8:05 p.m. For ticket information call 1-800-THE-WOLVES.