Preview: Testing Their Limits
By: Manitoba Moose Staff | Published: November 14th 2018
Nov. 14, 2018 at TEXAS STARS
The Manitoba Moose (7-7-0-0) get this season’s first glimpse of their new Central Division opponents, the Texas Stars (6-5-1-1). The 7:00 p.m. CT. puck drop will be available on the Moose App, moosehockey.com/listenlive, or streaming live on AHLTV.
The Moose looking to tonight’s game as a means to get rid of the bad taste left by yesterday’s 5-0 loss in San Antonio. Manitoba was unable to generate scoring chances which rookie defenceman Luke Green attributed to a lack of execution.
“Definitely not the result we were looking for. I felt our details weren’t there, that was the biggest thing. We just weren’t sharp.”
Manitoba will need to be more disciplined against the Stars than in Tuesday’s battle. Rookies Logan Stanley and Skyler McKenzie each recorded their first professional fighting majors while the team as a whole earned a season-high 38 penalty minutes.
The Moose have struggled on the road early on this season, going 2-4-0-0 without scoring more than one regulation goal in any of the eight games. That could be solved tonight as Manitoba and the Stars averaged more than seven goals per game in the four meetings last season. JC Lipon (2G, 2A) of the Moose, and Texas’ Travis Morin (5A) were key cogs for their respective teams in those games.
Manitoba's defencemen, meanwhile, are due to light the lamp soon. Against the Rampage Tucker Poolman (3), Peter Stoykewych (2), Charles-David Beaudoin (2), and Stanley (2) accounted for more than half the teams shots on Tuesday. Poolman and Stoykewych alongside fellow d-men Cameron Schilling and Nelson Nogier are in the team’s top ten for shots on goal, but are all chasing their first score.
According to Green the team will move on quickly and focus on getting back to what made them successful as recently as a 6-2 victory on Saturday (Nov 10) against Grand Rapids.
“It’s going to be tough. We definitely need a bounce-back game from [Tuesday]. That’s not how we want to play, that’s not how we play here. The biggest thing is forget about (San Antonio), don’t dwell on it and we’ve got to be ready today.”
For full coverage of the Moose while they’re on the road, go to moosehockey.com/. The team heads to Grand Rapids next for a 6:00 p.m. CT game on Saturday (Nov 17), before wrapping up the road swing in Chicago on Sunday (Nov 18) at 3:00 p.m. CT.
