Coming off of the holiday break the Baby Wild faced the Rockford Icehogs who were looking to close the gap to Iowa in the standings.
Ville Pokka started the scoring 7:53 into the first when he sniped the puck short side on Alex Stalock. Iowa tied the game with just under 2 minutes remaining in the first with Mario Lucia taking a slapshot high glove side beating Lars Johansson. Alex Tuch and Teemu Pulkkinen has assists on the Lucia goal.
After the first shots were tied 7-7 and both teams took 2 penalties in the first with both goals coming on the man advantage.