Cedar Park, TX- The Texas Stars returned home after a grueling six-day, eleven-day, four-city road trip in victorious fashion as they tripped up the defending Calder Cup champion Chicago Wolves 5-2 in front of 6,014 Friday night at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park. Friday was also the annual Teddy Bear Toss.
Texas dominated from beginning to end, receiving a goal each from Riley Tufte, Riley Barber, Fredrik Olofsson and a pair from Curtis McKenzie while netminder Matt Murray turned away 17-of-19 Chicago shots to earn the win.
For the third straight game Texas opened the scoring when Tufte sent the teddy bears flying after taking a back-door pass from Thomas Harley to give Texas a 1-0 lead 8:58 into the game.