Manitoba Moose with a strong effort but some bad bounces let the Texas Stars skate home with 4-2 victory

The Moose were looking to build on two straight wins as they try to get back into the playoff race. Wouldn’t be easy as they went for the two-game sweep against the 1st place Stars.

Lineup news:

The same lineup for Manitoba except it was Kaapo Kahkonen in net instead of Domenic Divincentiis. Jets prospect Chaz Lucius missed his second straight game and fourth in the last five.

Lines & D pairs:

Shaw– Toninato –Ford
Suess – King – Wagner
AJF – JAD – Lambert
Liwiski – Zhilkin – Empey

Sautner – Salomonsson
Phillips – Coghlan
Lundmark – Bauer

Kahkonen

Notable:

The Moose got things started off on the right skate as Ben King had a nice deflection in front to give the Moose a 1-0 lead early in the 1st period. That was his 9th goal of the season off a nice pass by Isaak Phillips over to Dylan Coghlan who fired it on net.

Big save through a screen by Moose goalie Kaapo Kahkonen as the 1st period came to an end against former Manitoba defenceman Kyle Capobianco. Home team led 1-0 after 20 minutes of play in Winnipeg.

Mason Shaw became the second Moose player into double digits for goals with his 10th of the season to make it a 2-0 game. Nice initial bank pass by Parker Ford up to the captain Dominic Toninato who got it back to Ford who then found Shaw.

Late in period number 2 the Stars get on the board as Cameron Hughes took Dylan Coghlan to the net and the puck deflects into the goal off the Moose D man’s skate. Manitoba lead was cut to 2-1 after a strong 40 minutes of play.

The bad bounce theme would continue into the final frame where the visitors were able to score both a shorthanded and power play goal within 1:30 of each other to swing a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead.

An empty netter would seal the deal for Texas.

Defenceman Dylan Coghlan did almost make it three straight games with a goal with seconds remaining on the clock but he rang it off the post.

With ten seconds left in the game Moose forward Jaret Anderson-Dolan was in some pain at the end of this play. Hard to see if it was from friendly fire or not. Slowed it down a few times and I’m wondering if it was his leg/foot which looked like it got sandwiched a bit.

Multi-point game:

None

Highlights:

Player post-game media:

Coach post-game media:

Health update:

“Chaz has a medical condition that needs a little but further evaluation so we’ll just wait and see”.

That was the update on Jets prospect Chaz Lucius from head coach Mark Morrison.

Up next:

The Moose are scheduled to practice tomorrow as they get set for the final two games of this six-game homestand.