Hockey Wilderness · Mar 8, 2018
A hot start, but Texas gets the two points as Iowa falls 4-2
AUSTIN, Texas - It was a tale of two periods for the Iowa Wild as they came out hot in the first, but then were blown out in the second by a playoff-hungry Stars (Dallas) team before heading into a scoreless third.
The Wild tend to be the team that makes adjustments in the second frame, but an early period goal followed by a short-handed one proved damning in the period’s first ten minutes before Justin Dowling was able to put away the dagger.
Niklas Svedberg (16-11-7; 2.53 GAA/.918 SV%) performed admirably - stopping 29 of 33 shots en route to the loss. There were a couple of fluky goals, but goal horns are goal horns. The Wild do not have a regulation win with Sveddy in net since Feb. 19th.