Texas Stars fall 4-3 in Peoria

Tuesday, February 23, 2010-11:29:pm
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The Texas Stars lost their third straight game, falling 4-3 in Peoria Tuesday night. The Stars finished their five-game road trip with a 2-3-0 record.

Aaron Gagnon, Scott McCulloch and Maxime Fortunus scored goals for Texas, and Perttu Lindgren had two assists. Todd Ford got the start in goal and stopped 26 of 30 shots, but lost his fifth straight decision.

The two teams were tied 2-2 going into the third period, but Peoria scored on the power play 5:58 into the period to make it 3-2 and extended the lead to 4-2 at the 13:50 mark. Fortunus scored on the power play with 2:47 remaining, but the Stars couldn't get the equalizer.

Texas returns home to play Houston on Friday.

Box Score
Texas Stars 3 At Peoria Rivermen 4
Feb 23, 2010 - Carver Arena

Texas  1 1 1 - 3
Peoria 1 1 2 - 4

1st Period-1, Peoria, Pelletier 10 (Stastny, Guenin), 1:33. 2, Texas, Gagnon 16 (Sceviour, Hutchinson), 9:04. Penalties-Love Peo (boarding), 17:00.

2nd Period-3, Peoria, Sonne 9 (Cracknell, Guenin), 7:11. 4, Texas, McCulloch 5 (Lindgren, Beaudoin), 15:42. Penalties-Lepine Peo (hooking), 9:07; Strachan Peo (cross-checking), 10:05; Gagnon Tex (interference), 10:57.

3rd Period-5, Peoria, Drazenovic 14 (Junland, Armstrong), 5:58 (pp). 6, Peoria, Porter 10   13:50. 7, Texas, Fortunus 11 (Lindgren, Peters), 17:13 (pp).
Penalties-Korostin Tex (hooking), 4:48; Armstrong Peo (hooking), 15:45.

Shots on Goal-Texas 11-15-6-32. Peoria 7-10-13-30.
Power Play Opportunities-Texas 1 of 4; Peoria 1 of 2.
Goalies-Texas, Ford 4-5-1 (30 shots-26 saves). Peoria, Toivonen 11-11-2 (32 shots-29 saves).
A-3,814
Game Stats
Players Pos. G A +/- SH PIM
Jancevski, Dan D 0 0 -2 1 0
Stafford, Garrett D 0 0 -1 0 0
Sceviour, Colton RW 0 1 +1 1 0
Hutchinson, Andrew D 0 1 +1 3 0
Gagnon, Aaron C 1 0 +1 1 2
McCulloch, Scott LW 1 0 0 4 0
Sawada, Raymond RW 0 0 -1 2 0
Lindgren, Perttu C 0 2 -1 1 0
Fortunus, Maxime D 1 0 +1 3 0
Stephenson, Matt D 0 0 -1 1 0
Graham, Ethan D 0 0 0 1 0
Morin, Travis C 0 0 -1 1 0
Peters, Warren C 0 1 -1 2 0
Beaudoin, Mathieu RW 0 1 0 1 0
Rallo, Greg C 0 0 -1 6 0
Korostin, Sergei RW 0 0 0 1 2
Gazdic, Luke LW 0 0 0 1 0
Wathier, Francis LW 0 0 0 2 0
Goaltenders
Players Mins GA SA SVS SV% PIM
Ford, Todd 58:43 4 30 26 .867 0
Bachman, Richard - - - - - -