{"id":733574,"date":"2026-06-13T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733574\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:46:08","slug":"vinni-lettieri-leads-toronto-marlies-to-win-over-chicago-wolves-in-calder-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733574\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinni Lettieri leads Toronto Marlies to win over Chicago Wolves in Calder Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH CHICAGO \u2014 Vinni Lettieri\u2019s goal at 11:32 of the third period snapped a 2-2 deadlock and lifted the visiting Toronto Marlies to a 4-2 win over the Chicago Wolves in the opening game of the Calder Cup final on Friday at Allstate Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ben Danford and Cedric Pare also scored for the Marlies, while Lettieri \u2014 who finished with three points \u2014 scored into an empty net with nine seconds left and the Wolves pressing for the equalizer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bradly Nadeau and Skyler Brind\u2019Amour scored for the Wolves, who outshot the visitors 28-25. Both teams were 0-for-3 on the power play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The teams were tied 1-1 after the first period and 2-2 heading into the third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Game 2 in the best-of-seven American Hockey League championship series is Sunday in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH CHICAGO \u2014 Vinni Lettieri\u2019s goal at 11:32 of the third period snapped a 2-2 deadlock and lifted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-733574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}