Joel Eriksson Ek was supposed to play originally but ended up as a healthy scratch. It's quite likely that Eriksson Ek will end up called up to the NHL as Erik Haula is banged up and questionable for tonight. So that likely was just to be sure. Mike Weber, who was signed to a try-out with Iowa earlier to replace the injured Victor Bartley, made his Iowa debut.
The game was pretty even to start off with but at around 5 minutes in it got real ugly. Steven Michalek who started for Iowa allowed 3 goals within a minute and was pulled in favor of Alex Stalock.