Attendees of the Saturday night Texas Stars game against the Chicago Wolves were treated to everything hockey has to offer.<\/p>\n
For the first thirty minutes of the night, good looks were hard to come by \u2014 defense dominated early. This was highlighted by an electric Chicago penalty kill unit, which successfully fought off five Texas power play opportunities, including a double minor on Chicago forward Noel Gunler.<\/p>\n
Texas looked to have a more defensively sound game, and they found it. The Stars were able to slow a Wolves offense desperate to find any momentum. Texas found momentum in the final period, scoring a trio of goals to take down Chicago 4-2 at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Last night), we just weren\u2019t any place quick enough,\u201d head coach Toby Petersen said. \u201cIt was a big push by us to try to get more aggressive, get into bodies and try to get going the other direction as quick as we could.\u201d<\/p>\n
Texas and Chicago remained scoreless until Wolves forward Felix Unger S\u00f6rum netted a one-timer to land the game\u2019s first goal with 9:52 left in the second period.<\/p>\n
Within the next minute and a half, Wolves defenseman Charles-Alexis Legault put the Wolves up by two. Stars forward Harrison Scott responded with a goal off the skate of Chicago goalie Cayden Primeau.<\/p>\n
Outside of a pair of goals in the second period, Chicago went scoreless down the stretch due largely to the Stars\u2019 overall defensive performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just felt like we\u2019re doing a good job shutting down their plays in the D zone and attacking offensively,\u201d Scott said. \u201cSame thing in our D zone, trying to end plays early and get on the offense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faced with a one-goal deficit in the final period, Texas carried the offensive momentum into three goals from forwards Matthew Seminoff and Jack Becker and the game-sealing empty netter from Stars captain Curtis McKenzie.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were kind of saying in the room, \u2018We get one, we\u2019ll get three,\u2019\u201d Scott said. \u201cWe just needed to crack the seal, and we\u2019ve been able to do that consistently throughout this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Texas knows this Chicago team well, finishing the season having won seven of their eight head-to-head matchups in the regular season. With a likely date in the Calder Cup Playoff, Texas is confident in a playoff series with Chicago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve kind of had their number this year,\u201d Scott said. \u201cWe want them, we\u2019re confident going into games against them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Stars will face the Iowa Wild on April 7 at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park at 7 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attendees of the Saturday night Texas Stars game against the Chicago Wolves were treated to everything hockey has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-236257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236257","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=236257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}