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Wathier, Gagnon lead Texas Stars past San Antonio

Saturday, March 13, 2010-11:24:pm
/Andrew's Dallas Stars Page

Francis Wathier scored two goals and added an assist and Aaron Gagnon scored one goal and had two assists as the Texas Stars beat the San Antonio Rampage 5-4 before a sellout crowd of 6,862 fans at Cedar Park Center Saturday night.

Ray Sawada and Travis Morin also scored for the Stars. Goalie Brent Krahn made 30 saves to improve to 12-2-0 on the season.

The Stars trailed 3-2 going into the third period, but Wathier, Morin and Wathier scored in a 4:55 span to put the Stars up 5-3 with just under three minutes remaining in the game. San Antonio cut the lead to 5-4 with 2:23 remaining but could not get the equalizer.

The Stars next play on Thursday, when they host Milwaukee.

Box Score
San Antonio Rampage 4 At Texas Stars 5
Mar 13, 2010 - Cedar Park Center

San Antonio 1 1 2 - 4
Texas          1 1 3 - 5

1st Period-1, San Antonio, Heshka 5 (MacLean, Turris), 7:52 (pp). 2, Texas, Sawada 6 (Peters, Wathier), 9:18. Penalties-Morin Tex (boarding), 6:25; Meyer Sa (fighting), 12:54; Tousignant Tex (fighting), 12:54; Turris Sa (interference), 14:12.

2nd Period-3, Texas, Wathier 13 (Rallo, Gagnon), 2:16 (pp). 4, San Antonio, Perrault 13 (Spina, Boedker), 10:57 (pp).
Penalties-Spina Sa (hooking), 0:20; Bickel Sa (roughing, roughing), 3:16; Picard Sa (roughing), 3:16; Gazdic Tex (roughing), 3:16; Sawada Tex (roughing), 3:16; Sawada Tex (elbowing), 7:14; served by Korostin Tex (bench minor - too many men), 9:30; Heshka Sa (high-sticking), 17:13.

3rd Period-5, San Antonio, Morgan 7 (Watkins, Bickel), 7:01. 6, Texas, Morin 19 (Rallo, Gagnon), 12:08. 7, Texas, Wathier 14   14:57. 8, Texas, Gagnon 20 (Korostin, Beaudoin), 17:03. 9, San Antonio, Picard 22 (MacLean, Bickel), 17:37.
Penalties-No Penalties

Shots on Goal-San Antonio 9-14-11-34. Texas 12-6-8-26.
Power Play Opportunities-San Antonio 2 of 3; Texas 1 of 4.
Goalies-San Antonio, Tordjman 15-17-2 (26 shots-21 saves). Texas, Krahn 12-2-0 (34 shots-30 saves).
A-6,862
Game Stats

Players

Pos. G A +/- SH PIM
Jancevski, Dan D 0 0 0 2 0
Stafford, Garrett D 0 0 0 3 0
Sceviour, Colton RW 0 0 0 1 0
Hutchinson, Andrew D 0 0 0 1 0
Gagnon, Aaron C 1 2 +2 3 0
Sawada, Raymond RW 1 0 +1 5 4
Fortunus, Maxime D 0 0 +2 0 0
Stephenson, Matt D 0 0 0 0 0
Graham, Ethan D 0 0 +2 1 0
Morin, Travis C 1 0 -1 2 2
Ludwig, Trevor D 0 0 -1 0 0
Peters, Warren C 0 1 +2 3 0
Beaudoin, Mathieu RW 0 1 +1 0 0
Rallo, Greg C 0 2 +1 0 0
Korostin, Sergei RW 0 1 0 1 0
Gazdic, Luke LW 0 0 0 0 2
Wathier, Francis LW 2 1 +1 4 0
Tousignant, Mathieu F 0 0 0 0 5
Goaltenders
Players Mins GA SA SVS SV% PIM
Krahn, Brent 60 4 34 30 .882 0
Climie, Matt - - - - - -