Chicago Wolves rally past Texas Stars 5-4 in wild Allstate win

Noah Philp jumped on a rebound of a Felix Unger Sörum shot and buried the winner with 4:00 left, sending the Chicago Wolves to a 5-4 victory over the Texas Stars at Allstate Arena. The Wolves rallied twice in a game that saw Cayden Primeau make 20 saves and, according to the Chicago release, notch his 10th consecutive victory as Chicago extended a points streak to five contests.

Texas struck early on a pair of plays manufactured behind Chicago’s defense. At 8:38, Matthew Seminoff intercepted a clearing attempt along the right wall and fed a shot that Cameron Hughes redirected into the net to make it 1-0. Four minutes later Sean Chisholm won a puck battle behind the Wolves’ net, found Justin Ertel in the left circle and Ertel threaded a pass to Jack Becker, who tapped home his 10th goal of the season at 12:29 to push the Stars to a 2-0 lead.

Chicago began to claw back late in the first. Justin Robidas snapped home a wrist shot from the slot on the second of back-to-back Texas penalties at 18:17 to cut the deficit to 2-1. With 0.2 seconds remaining in the period Noel Gunler finished an odd-man rush to tie the game 2-2, a buzzer-beater that erased a two-goal hole before intermission.

The second period followed the game's ebb-and-flow. Harrison Scott forced a turnover in the right circle, played a give-and-go with Ayrton Martino and sniped past Primeau at 34:05 to restore a 3-2 Stars lead. Bradly Nadeau replied for Chicago at 39:09, slotting home a rebound off a failed Stars clearing attempt with 51 seconds left in the middle frame to knot the score at three.

Ronan Seeley put the Wolves ahead seven minutes into the third, powering a wrist shot from the top of the left circle over Remi Poirier at 46:50 to make it 4-3. Seeley framed the club’s recent form succinctly: “We’re really finding our game. We have good preparation. We know what the other team is going to bring every night so we know when we stick to the program that the coaching staff brings to us that’s the best chance we have to win.” On the play he added, “I’ve just been in the right place at the right time the last two nights. Felix had his standard patience in the corner and a lane opened up for me. There was a good screen by (Nikita) Pavlychev and I was able to find a corner.”

Arttu Hyry answered four minutes later at 50:24, converting a backhand in the slot after Cameron Hughes kept the puck in the offensive zone to pull Texas back to 4-4. The decisive sequence came at 55:59 when Unger Sörum’s shot produced a rebound and Philp redirected it home for his first goal in a Wolves uniform; Chicago’s release credited Unger Sörum with the lone assist on the winner and with three assists overall in the game.

Poiri er finished with 25 saves for Texas while Primeau stopped 20 for Chicago. The Wolves’ win moved their record to 26-11-6-5 and, per the Chicago release, allowed them to capture five of a possible six points in a three-game stretch while snapping Texas’ two-game winning streak; the Stars’ record was listed as 24-22-3-1 after the loss. RinkLive noted Chicago’s next outing is versus the Toronto Marlies on Saturday, Feb. 28, while Texas is scheduled to visit San Diego on Friday, Feb. 27. A single scoring sheet in the aggregated materials listed Feb. 6 as the game date, but the majority of official recaps and team releases record the game on Feb. 21, 2026.