Iowa Stars Report

Monday, February 18, 2008

The past week

Recent Games
Date Opponent Result
2/12 At Manitoba Lost 6-3
2/13 At Manitoba Won 4-1
2/15 At Houston Won 1-0
2/17 At Houston Won 3-0

The Iowa Stars had a solid week on the road, winning three of four games that included two shutout wins in Houston.

After dropping the first game of their trip 6-3 in Manitoba on Tuesday, the Stars won 4-1 the next night in Manitoba and then headed to Houston, where Steve Silverthorn posted a shutout on Friday and Tobias Stephan posted a shutout on Sunday.

The three straight wins lifted the Stars, who have won six of their last nine games, back to the .500 mark (26-26-2-2) on the season, and leaves them five points out of a playoff spot.

Injured forward Francis Wathier, who is expected to return to the lineup in the next two weeks or so, said a recent team meeting may have helped turn things around.

"I think this all started before the road trip. I would say five games before the road trip we had a big meeting with the coaches and they really put everything in our face," Wathier said Monday night on the Stars' weekly radio show. "They said, 'Hey, you guys know what to do and if you want to be part of the playoffs you know what to do. ... The guys are doing a great job. Before we went on the road we beat Peoria and it was just a hard working game. We were able to bring that on the road trip, and it was a great road trip."

Iowa plays four games in the coming week, including a three-game homestand that opens Tuesday.

Iowa/Idaho Notes
  • Tobias Stephan has three shutouts in his last seven starts and now has five on the season, a new Iowa Stars franchise record. Stephan's five shutouts are tied for the AHL lead as well.
     
  • Left wing James Neal has scored five goals in his last nine games played. He had two in three games before going out with a knee injury in late December and has picked up three in six games since returning from the injury earlier this month.
     
  • Left wing John Lammers has a seven-game goal scoring streak in Idaho. Lammers has 11 goals and four assists during the streak.
Injury update
  • F Francis Wathier (shoulder) remains out, but is targeting a return at the beginning of March.
Transactions
  • D Dan Jancevski assigned to Iowa on February 18
  • D Dan Jancevski called up by Dallas on February 16
Upcoming Schedule
February 19
Hamilton at   Iowa 7:07 pm CST
February 21
Milwaukee at   Iowa 7:07 pm CST
February 22
Chicago at   Iowa 7:07 pm CST
February 24
Iowa at   Chicago 4:00 pm CST
Statistics
No. 

Player

 Pos GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG
19 Toby Petersen C 56 18 27 45 -5 22 6 0
7 Marty Sertich C 55 16 16 32 -9 26 7 0
21 Janos Vas LW 56 14 18 32 -8 43 4 3
27 Dan Jancevski (total)  D 50 5 18 23 -31 64 4 0
13 Konstantin Pushkarev RW 29 7 15 22 +6 33 3 0
25 Chris Conner LW 31 7 14 21 -3 2 1 1
15 Perttu Lindgren C 46 4 14 18 -14 2 0 0
18 James Neal LW 38 8 9 17 -5 36 3 0
14 Nolan Baumgartner D 52 5 12 17 -10 41 5 0
24 Vojtech Polak RW 35 6 10 16 -8 18 1 0
8 Jussi Timonen (total)  D 37 0 16 16 -11 22 0 0
10 Marius Holtet RW 50 9 5 14 -18 20 2 0
44 B.J. Crombeen RW 51 7 7 14 -1 120 0 0
26 Bryce Lampman (total)  D 48 6 8 14 -9 22 2 0
3 Trevor Byrne D 51 1 6 7 -9 63 0 0
17 Richard Clune LW 26 3 3 6 -5 90 0 0
20 Joel Lundqvist C 8 2 4 6 -3 2 0 0
23 Tommy Wandell C 29 2 3 5 -5 12 0 0
5 Mark Fistric D 30 1 4 5 -9 48 0 0
16 Loui Eriksson LW 2 1 2 3 +1 2 0 0
33 Vadim Khomitski D 7 1 0 1 -1 10 0 0
9 John Lammers LW 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 Brad Winchester LW 1 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0
2 Nicklas Grossman D 10 0 0 0 +1 10 0 0
11 Aaron Gagnon C 20 0 0 0 -2 8 0 0
31 Tobias Stephan G 44 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
No.

Player

 GP Mins W L SOL Avg. GA SA SVS % SO
31 Tobias Stephan 44 2489 20 18 2 2.51 104 1159 1055 .910 5
ECHL Statistics
No. 

Player

 Pos GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG
20 John Lammers LW 17 16 7 23 +6 12 8 0
24 Aaron Gagnon C 15 6 9 15 +3 2 1 1
8 Richard Clune LW 19 1 9 10 +5 41 0 0
19 Alexander Naurov RW 39 1 6 7 +2 16 0 0
11 Tom Wandell C 3 3 0 3 +1 2 2 0

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