After suffering their worst loss of the season last Saturday at home to the San Jose Barracuda, the Texas Stars need a palate cleanse. Sometimes, a road trip provides that opportunity due to the bonds that are inevitably forged within a team collectively pursuing an identity. The Stars hope that's the case as they head into southern California to take on the Ontario Reign on Thursday evening.
In their initial meeting of the year against their former rival from the Pacific Division, forward Michael Mersch will play his first game against his former team with whom he spent the first four plus years of his professional career going back to when the Reign were the Manchester Monarchs.