Texas Stars/Minor League Report

The Texas Stars played the first three games of a four-game home stand over the past week and lost two of three. They fell 5-1 to Peoria on Wednesday. The Stars have given up five goals in a game twice this season and both times it's come against the Rivermen, one of the top scoring teams in the league.

On Friday the Stars beat Rockford 4-2. Mathieu Beaudoin, who has been on a goal scoring roll lately, snapped a 2-2 tie with 7:18 left in the second period and that stood up as the game-winner. Matt Climie made 35 saves to get the win in goal.

Rockford bounced back to beat the Stars in a rematch on Saturday, taking a 3-2 decision. Richard Bachman got his second AHL start and stopped 19 of 22 shots to fall to 1-1-0 since being called up for the injured Brent Krahn. Beaudoin scored another goal, giving him seven in the last six games.

The Stars, who are 6-5-0-0 in their last 11 games, now have a 19-7-2-2 record on the season and continue to lead the AHL in points. They play three games in the coming week, two of them at home.

"I thought he was OK. I thought he did some very good things," said Dallas Stars head coach Marc Crawford. "He wants to make a play. He can really skate. He sees the ice very well. He's definitely gotten much better defensively. He's coming, for sure."

Vishnevskiy returned to the AHL and played in all three games for Texas this past week, picking up an assist in each game. He's tied with Brad Lukowich for the team lead in defenseman scoring with 13 points (four goals, nine assists).

• The Stars continue to lead the AHL in points with 42 and rank second in points percentage at .700.
• The Stars lead the AHL in road wins with ten.
• Texas leads the AHL with a 2.00 goals against average.
• Texas is averaging 13.77 penalty minutes per game, which ranks 28th among the 29 AHL teams.
• Texas ranks seventh in the league in penalty killing at 88.2 percent.
• The Stars rank 13th in power play efficiency at 16.4 percent.
• The Stars are 14-1-1 when scoring first and 17-0-1 when leading after two periods.

• Matt Climie is fourth in the AHL in save percentage (.931) and ninth in goals against average (2.14).
• Brent Krahn, who has been out with a lower body injury, continues to lead the league in both goals against average (1.41) and save percentage (.958).
• Greg Rallo is tied for seventh in the league with 12 goals.
• Colton Sceviour is tied for seventh in the league with a plus-13 rating.
• Travis Morin is tied for 15th in rookie scoring with 15 points (two goals, 13 assists).
• Mathieu Beaudoin has scored seven goals in his last six games.
• Sergei Korostin, who is tied for second in rookie goal scoring with nine, has not scored in his last seven games.

• G Brent Krahn has missed the last eight games with a lower body injury. 
• Landon Wilson remains out with a lower body injury.
• D Brad Lukowich (undisclosed) and D Garrett Stafford (lower body) both returned to action this past week.

• 12/9: D Ivan Vishnevskiy assigned to Texas by Dallas
• 12/8: LW Luke Gazdic assigned to Idaho (ECHL)
• 12/7: D Ivan Vishnevskiy recalled by Dallas

Forward Luke Gazdic, assigned to the team from Texas (AHL) last week, picked up a Gordie Howe Hat Trick in his first game with the Steelheads, registering one goal, one assist and a fighting major. He was the first star of the game that night. Idaho lost 3-2 in a shootout to Ontario.