{"id":455443,"date":"2026-10-03T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455443\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:42:08","slug":"game-preview-iowa-wild-at-texas-stars-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455443\/","title":{"rendered":"GAME PREVIEW: IOWA WILD AT TEXAS STARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOct 3, 2026<\/p>\n

Iowa Wild (0-0-0-1; 1\u00a0pts.) at Texas Stars (1-0-0-0; 2\u00a0pts.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Iowa Wild and Texas Stars\u00a0square off in the second game of a weekend set\u00a0at H-E-B Center at Cedar Park on\u00a0Saturday\u00a0at 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WATCH: AHLTV on FloHockey<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

LISTEN: 1460 AM and 106.3 FM on KXnO<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

All-Time Iowa Wild Record: 38-42-10-5 (16-24-4-3 at Iowa, 22-18-6-2 at Texas)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last Time: Iowa picked up a point in a 4-3 shootout defeat to Texas on Friday night in the 2026-27 season opener… Hunter Haight and Rieger Lorenz (2g) found the back of the net for the Wild… William Rousseau stopped 32 shots for Iowa… The Wild went 1-for-4 with the man advantage and killed off all three Stars power plays\u00a0<\/p>\n

2025-26: The Wild went 6-1-1-0 against the Stars in 2025-26… Hunter Haight led Iowa in goals (6) and points (10)… Nicolas Aub\u00e9-Kubel paced Iowa with six assists… Samuel Hlavaj finished 3-1-1 with a 2.01 GAA and a 0.926 SV%… Cross Hanas led Texas with six points (1-5=6) during the season series\u00a0<\/p>\n

TEAM NOTES\u00a0<\/p>\n

MULTI-POINT GAMES: Three Iowa skaters recorded two points in Friday\u2019s shootout loss… Rieger Lorenz opened the scoring with his first professional goal and added a second goal in the third period… Hunter Haight (1-1=2) and Tyler Pitlick (0-2=2) also had multi-point games… Haight recorded six multi-point games in 2025-26\u00a0<\/p>\n

SPECIAL TEAMS: Iowa opened the 2026-27 season with a 1-for-4 performance on the power play… The Wild went 8-for-23 with the man advantage against the Stars in 2025-26… Iowa allowed just three goals on 23 Texas power plays last season\u00a0<\/p>\n

SHOOTOUT STATS: William Rousseau stopped one Texas shooter while Brandon Halverson stopped all three Iowa shooters in Friday\u2019s shootout… Wild goalies stopped 13-of-18 shooters in 2025-26… Iowa went 3-3 in shootouts last season\u00a0<\/p>\n

ROOKIE LAPS\u00a0<\/p>\n

OPENING GAMES\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more information on Iowa Wild hockey, 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 2026-27 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 2026-27 season, and watch all Iowa Wild games online.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 3, 2026 Iowa Wild (0-0-0-1; 1\u00a0pts.) at Texas Stars (1-0-0-0; 2\u00a0pts.)\u00a0 The Iowa Wild and Texas Stars\u00a0square…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455444,"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":["post-455443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ahl","tag-des-moines","tag-entertainment","tag-hockey","tag-iowa","tag-minnesota","tag-nhl","tag-preview","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455443","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=455443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}