Texas Wins a Testy Game with Visiting Wolves 8-5

(Credit: Ross Bonander / Texas Stars)The Texas Stars overcame a Rocco Grimaldi hat trick while eight different players lit the lamp for Texas as the Stars cruised to an 8-5 victory in a testy matchup against the division-rival Chicago Wolves. The visitors racked up 49 penalty minutes including three misconducts for abuse of officials, leading to the ejection of their head coach, Bob Nardella, in the second period.

Coach Graham likes to talk about starting on time, and the Stars certainly did that tonight with Matej Blumel scoring just 19 seconds in on a pretty tic-tac-toe play with linemates Fredrik Karlstrom and Oskar Back. A few minutes later, Back got one of his own with Keith Kinkaid…