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The Huskies rebounded from an abysmal second quarter in which they allowed a 21-2 DePaul run to go up seven early in the fourth, but DePaul clawed back to lead by two possessions late. After pushing back ahead by three, UConn turned the ball over twice in the final 44 seconds of the game, allowing DePaul to tie things up before Geno Auriemma ran a play out of a timeout for Ducharme to get the ball with 8.6 seconds on the clock. Ducharme, the Huskies’ more surprising freshman star, barreled to the basket for the win-sealing layup, and finished with a team-high 19 points.

“Over the last six weeks, our leadership has been taking part in a discovery and research process that explored all functions and structure of our Hockey Operations department,” Wirtz said in the statement, which was released before Wednesday’s road game against the Detroit Red Wings. “This top to bottom exercise revealed an incredible amount of in-house talent while also highlighting areas for growth and opportunities to become more competitive.

Now it’s a matter of what Poles, a 36-year-old first-time GM, does with this golden opportunity. This is about setting a vision, assembling a support staff, making significant changes across the organization and creating plans to build a contender. The first order of business, of course, is identifying the next head coach for the Chicago Bears. And even as Poles went through interviews with Caldwell, Quinn and Eberflus — three candidates who had preliminary meetings with the team before he was hired — it was worth wondering whether Poles’ list might extend beyond those three names.

In conjunction with the giveaway, Wolves players will wear “Healthcare Heroes” jerseys for the Friday and Saturday games that “will be auctioned and raffled to benefit Chicago Wolves Charities and three local health care-related charities: the Illinois Association of Student Nurses, the Chicago chapter of the National Black Nurses Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Illinois,” the Wolves wrote in a release on their website. The game-worn jerseys will be autographed as well.

“She said, ‘The Cubs are going to put up a statue for Harry Caray and I called them to do a statue for Jack, who had been there of course much longer than Harry, and they said they wouldn’t do a statue for Jack but they would put ‘Hey, Hey’ (Jack Brickhouse’s signature phrase) on the foul poles,’” Marovitz recalled. “She said, ‘You have to help me do something to memorialize Jack.’ I said, ‘Let me get to work and we’ll get it done.’ ”