The Iowa Wild snapped the Texas Stars' five-game win streak with a final score of 4-1. The Stars peppered Wild netminder Sameul Hlavaj with 34 shots but only beat him once. Texas maintains a healthy four-point lead over the rest of the Central Division.
Texas had the majority of the shots in the game and (arguably) most of the scoring chances. Still, outside of a Jack Becker third-period tally a few minutes after the Wild took a 2-0 lead, they could not solve Hlavaj. “It happens,” head coach Neil Graham said when asked what made the Wild netminder so challenging to beat.