Iowa Stars Report

Monday, February 25, 2008

The past week

Recent Games
Date Opponent Result
2/19 Hamilton Lost 4-2
2/21 Milwaukee Lost 5-4 (OT)
2/22 Chicago Lost 3-1
2/24 At Chicago Lost 3-1

The Iowa Stars went 0-3-1 over the past week, leaving them eight points out a playoff spot with 20 games to go.

"We still believe we can make the playoffs," goalie Tobias Stephan said. "It's not going to be easy, but there is a lot of hockey left. We've just got to go game-by-game now. We need to win a few games in a row and get some confidence. It is certainly not over yet."

Iowa's toughest lost over the past week came on Thursday against Milwaukee. They held a 4-1 lead going into the third period, gave up the tying goal with 59 seconds left regulation and then lost in the final second of overtime.

Iowa is on the road for three games this week, playing in Hamilton, Toronto and Rochester. Iowa has been a much better road team this season. They are 14-11-1-1 on the road and just 12-18-2-1 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Dallas closes deal to move AHL to Austin area

The city of Cedar Park last week approved a deal with the Dallas Stars to build a new arena in that city and bring the Stars' AHL affiliate to that city, which is near Austin, by 2010.

Hicks Sports Marketing Group will pay $12 million of the $55 million cost, including $10 million towards construction and another $2 million towards purchasing adjacent land to develop into retail and office space. The Hicks Group also has the right to sell naming rights to the facility as long as Cedar Park is used in the name.

The Stars affiliate in Cedar Park will be called the Texas Stars.

The ownership in Iowa, the current home of the Dallas affiliate, is expected to land a new NHL affiliation down the road.

"There is no threat of the American Hockey League leaving Des Moines," Kirby Schlegel, co-owner of the Iowa Stars, told the Des Moines Register.

Schlegel told the Register the team may come up with a new nickname and team colors to establish its own identity as early as next season.

"Co-branding ourselves with a team over which we didn't have any control was something that we should have done differently," Schlegel said.

Injury update
  • D Jussi Timonen (hand)
  • F Richard Clune (hand)
  • F Francis Wathier (shoulder) remains out, but is targeting a return at the beginning of March.
Transactions
  • None
Upcoming Schedule
February 29
Iowa at   Hamilton 7:30 pm EST
March 1
Iowa at   Toronto 7:00 pm EST
March 2
Iowa at   Rochester 6:05 pm EST
Statistics
No. 

Name

  Pos GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG
19 Toby Petersen C 60 19 28 47 -5 24 6 0
7 Marty Sertich C 59 18 17 35 -9 28 7 0
21 Janos Vas LW 60 15 18 33 -10 45 4 3
27 Dan Jancevski (total)  D 54 6 18 24 -34 66 5 0
25 Chris Conner LW 35 8 15 23 -3 4 1 2
13 Konstantin Pushkarev RW 33 7 16 23 +6 33 3 0
15 Perttu Lindgren C 49 4 15 19 -14 2 0 0
18 James Neal LW 42 9 9 18 -3 48 3 0
14 Nolan Baumgartner D 56 5 13 18 -8 47 5 0
44 B.J. Crombeen RW 55 8 9 17 -4 146 0 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 54 9 5 14 -21 31 2 0
26 Bryce Lampman (total)  D 50 6 8 14 -8 22 2 0
3 Trevor Byrne D 55 1 8 9 -10 65 0 0
17 Richard Clune LW 27 3 3 6 -4 90 0 0
20 Joel Lundqvist C 8 2 4 6 -3 2 0 0
23 Tommy Wandell C 33 2 4 6 -4 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 47 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
No.

Player

 GP Mins W L SOL Avg. GA SA SVS % SO
31 Tobias Stephan 47 2640 20 21 2 2.61 115 1253 1138 .908 5
ECHL Statistics
No. 

Player

 Pos GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG
20 John Lammers LW 20 16 10 26 +6 14 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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