Iowa Stars Report

Monday, April 14, 2008

The past week

Recent Games
Date Opponent Result
4/8 San Antonio Lost 3-2 (OT)
4/11 At Quad City Won 5-4 (OT)
4/12 At Peoria Lost 4-1
4/13 At Rockford Lost 5-3

The Iowa Stars wrapped up the regular season over the past week, winning one of their final four games.

The Stars finished the season 35-37-5-3 and in eighth place in the West Division. They missed the playoffs for the first time in their three-year history.

But the Dallas Stars were happy with the development of players in Iowa. Two of the team's defensemen that started the season there - Nicklas Grossman and Mark Fistric - were regular players down the stretch in the NHL.

"I think they are probably disappointed we're not going to the postseason, but when you look at the players they've put into the NHL, you've got to say, 'Wow, they've done a good job,' " Dallas Stars co-GM Les Jackson told the Des Moines Register. "We basically depleted their whole defense here. ... I think overall organizationally we've developed players, and that's what we're here for."

Forward B.J. Crombeen and veteran center Toby Petersen, who spent most of the season in Iowa, are both currently members of Dallas' fourth line in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Plus, goalie Tobias Stephan put together a solid season in Iowa and is expected to get a look as Marty Turco's backup next season.

"He's on the right path," Iowa director of hockey operations Scott White told the Register about Stephan. "He's done what he's had to do. It will be up to him if he seizes that opportunity, but I think he'll have a good chance. Obviously we'll have to address our goaltending here as well. We're going to have Matt Climie, but we're going to need another goalie too."
Team awards
The Iowa Stars handed out team awards last week. Center Toby Petersen was named the team's MVP, James Neal was the Rookie of the Year and Mark Fistric was named the Best Defenseman.
 
Award Player
Most Valuable Player Toby Petersen
Best Defenseman Mark Fistric
Rookie of the Year James Neal
7th Player (Performed beyond expectations) Janos Vas
Most Improved B.J. Crombeen
Unsung Hero Tobias Stephan
Community Service Francis Wathier
 
Idaho's season ends
The Idaho Steelheads' bit to repeat as ECHL champs came to end last week as well. They were swept out of the first round of the Kelly Cup Playoffs by Alaska. Left wing John Lammers had three assists in four games and center Aaron Gagnon had one goal in four games for the Steelheads.
Transactions
  • LW Chris Conner, LW James Neal, RW Konstantin Pushkarev, LW Francis Wathier and D Dan Jancevski recalled to Dallas on April 14
Statistics
 No.

Name

  Pos GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG
7 Marty Sertich C 79 27 25 52 -8 42 9 0
19 Toby Petersen C 63 21 30 51 -2 24 6 0
21 Janos Vas LW 80 17 24 41 -12 51 4 3
13 Konstantin Pushkarev RW 49 13 27 40 +4 52 4 0
25 Chris Conner LW 55 13 26 39 -4 17 2 2
18 James Neal LW 62 18 19 37 +1 63 7 0
15 Perttu Lindgren C 69 10 24 34 -17 6 0 0
27 Dan Jancevski (total)  D 70 7 23 30 -34 88 5 0
44 B.J. Crombeen RW 65 14 14 28 +1 158 1 0
26 Bryce Lampman (total)  D 69 7 14 21 -1 36 2 0
23 Tom Wandell C 53 10 9 19 +5 16 1 0
10 Marius Holtet RW 67 10 9 19 -17 37 2 0
14 Nolan Baumgartner D 56 5 13 18 -8 47 5 0
8 Jussi Timonen (total)  D 47 0 18 18 -11 26 0 0
24 Vojtech Polak RW 35 6 10 16 -8 18 1 0
3 Trevor Byrne D 73 3 13 16 -11 79 0 0
28 Raymond Sawada RW 10 2 7 9 +5 14 0 1
17 Richard Clune LW 38 3 5 8 -6 137 0 0
20 Joel Lundqvist C 8 2 4 6 -3 2 0 0
58 Francis Wathier LW 19 2 3 5 -2 17 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
22 Trevor Ludwig D 7 0 3 3 +3 12 0 0
20 Tyler Shelast RW 11 1 1 2 -1 0 1 0
33 Vadim Khomitski D 7 1 0 1 -1 10 0 0
11 Aaron Gagnon C 25 0 1 1 -1 8 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
1 Matt Climie G 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Nicklas Grossman D 10 0 0 0 +1 10 0 0
31 Tobias Stephan G 60 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
No.

Player

 GP Mins W L SOL Avg. GA SA SVS % SO
31 Tobias Stephan 60 3329 27 25 2 2.65 147 1627 1480 .910 6
1 Matt Climie 6 346 1 4 1 3.99 23 180 157 .872 0
ECHL Statistics
No. 

Player

 Pos GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG
20 John Lammers LW 36 27 16 43 +10 22 13 0
  Playoffs   4 0 3 3 0 2 0 0
24 Aaron Gagnon C 22 7 14 21 +8 4 1 1
  Playoffs   4 1 0 1 -1 2 1 0
8 Richard Clune LW 19 1 9 10 +5 41 0 0
19 Alexander Naurov RW 40 1 6 7 +2 18 0 0
11 Tom Wandell C 3 3 0 3 +1 2 2 0

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