{"id":20961,"date":"2025-10-25T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/20961\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:17:07","slug":"game-preview-iowa-wild-at-texas-stars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/20961\/","title":{"rendered":"GAME PREVIEW: IOWA WILD AT TEXAS STARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOct 25, 2025<\/p>\n

Iowa Wild (1-4-0-0; 2 pts.) at Texas Stars (0-4-1-0; 1 pts.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Iowa Wild and Texas Stars complete weekend series at H-E-B Center at Cedar Park on Saturday at 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ALL-TIME SERIES\u00a0<\/p>\n

All-Time Iowa Wild Record: 33-41-9-4 (14-23-3-3 at Iowa, 19-18-6-1 at Texas)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last Time: Iowa opened the 2025-26 season series against Texas with a 3-1 win on Friday night… Gerry Mayhew, Ben Gleason, and Oskar Olausson scored for the Wild… Samuel Hlavaj turned aside 11-of-12 shots to take the victory in net… Iowa finished 2-for-3 on the power play… Trey Taylor scored Texas\u2019s only goal… Ben Kraws saved 28-of-31 shots\u00a0<\/p>\n

2024-25: The Wild went 3-3-1-1 against the Stars in 2024-25… Ben Jones led Iowa skaters in points (4-8=12)… Samuel Hlavaj finished 1-2-0 against Texas with a 3.56 GAA and a .885 SV%… Antonio Stranges led the Stars with 10 points (5-5=10) against the Wild… Magnus Hellberg went 3-2-0 with a 2.20 GAA and .930 SV%\u00a0<\/p>\n

TEAM NOTES\u00a0<\/p>\n

RECENT HISTORY: Iowa has won three games in a row over Texas dating back to a weekend sweep on Apr. 1-2, 2025… The Wild last took three in a row over the Stars in a five-game win streak during the 2020-21 season series (Mar. 31 – May 14, 2021)\u00a0<\/p>\n

THREE\u2019S THE KEY: Iowa scored three goals for the first time this season on Friday… The WIld went 20-3-1-0 in 2024-25 when scoring four or more goals\u00a0<\/p>\n

FIRST GOALS: Iowa scored the first goal for the first time since the season opener on Friday night… Texas has allowed the first goal in four of five games\u00a0<\/p>\n

SPECIAL TEAMS WOES: Texas is one of two AHL teams that has not scored a power-play goal this season (0-for-13)… The Stars have allowed six power-play goals on 16 opportunities against<\/p>\n

GERRY TIME\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayhew had previously scored his first goal in the first game of his season with Iowa twice (Oct. 7., 2017 vs. Milwaukee and Oct. 4, 2019 vs. Rockford)\u00a0<\/p>\n

FRIDAY FIRSTS\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more information on Iowa Wild hockey, please visit\u202fwww.iowawild.com<\/a>. Fans can purchase single-game tickets through the team\u2019s website at www.iowawild.com<\/a>. Group tickets (10 or more), suites, Wild 365 memberships or premium tickets can be purchased by contacting the Iowa Wild Ticket Department at 515-564-8700 or\u202ftickets@iowawild.com<\/a>. Season tickets for 2025-26 are on sale now. Fans can purchase season tickets for the upcoming season at\u202fhttps:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visit http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/pressbox<\/a> for the latest news and information from the team including press releases, game notes, multimedia content, and daily statistics.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Iowa Wild games are now streaming on AHLTV on FloHockey. Fans can visit FloHockey.tv<\/a> now to create a free account, purchase subscriptions for the 2024-25 season, and watch all Iowa Wild games online.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 25, 2025 Iowa Wild (1-4-0-0; 2 pts.) at Texas Stars (0-4-1-0; 1 pts.)\u00a0 The Iowa Wild and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14952,14951,2777,1116,3685,11728,2484,14953,154,2486,27,29,28,14950],"class_list":{"0":"post-20961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-des-moines","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-iowa","13":"tag-minnesota","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-preview","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-stars","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-headlines","20":"tag-texas-news","21":"tag-wild"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}