No Luck in Alamo City as Texas Suffers 3-1 Loss

(Credit: San Antonio Rampage)
Despite a shots edge of 47-27, the Rampage got all the luck in this afternoon's contest in San Antonio. The Stars retooled and tweaked their lineup after a disappointing night last night against the Heat. It seemed like the retool worked in every way except for on the scoreboard. The Stars had far more shot than their opponents and tallied a power play goal to boot.

Julius Honka was a healthy scratch for the first time ever with Texas. After a tough game, it's common for coaches to sit younger players to give them a chance to see the game from the press box view, which gives a lot more context for the overall action of the game. Honka is expected back on Tuesday.

Additionally, Radek Faksa was a late addition to the lineup. Dallas played last night with Faksa logging 10:16 of ice time against Minnesota.

Here's the release:
Despite 47 shots on goal and controlling the play for the final two periods, the Texas Stars fell short to the San Antonio Rampage on Sunday evening in a 3-1 road loss at AT&T Center.

Spencer Martin stopped 46 shots for the Rampage in his AHL debut. Gemel Smith scored the lone goal for Texas (8-4-0-1) to extend his point streak to four games. The Stars outshot the Rampage 34-16 in the final two periods combined.

The Stars and Rampage (8-1-4-0) hook up again on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.

San Antonio jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first off a power play goal by Maxim Noreau 1:22 into the game and Chris Bigras at 5:16 from the point. From there it was up to Martin to carry the Rampage the rest of the game.

Smith snapped home his fifth of the season for the Stars from the right circle to snap a 0-for-15 drought on the man-advantage for Texas at 2:36 of the second. Stephen Johns and Brandon Troock each tallied the assists for their second straight games with a point and it made it a 2-1 deficit for the Stars.

Late in the third Michael Schumacher added another for the Rampage, and Texas would pull John Muse for the extra attacker with about three minutes to play. Martin and the Rampage withstood the Stars' final push to hold on in the end.

Texas finished 1-for-6 on the power play. San Antonio went 1-for-3.

John Muse suffered his first loss of the season in a 24-save performance.

Tonight's lines:
Dowling-Morin-Ranford
Smith-Dickinson-Stransky
Shore-Faksa-Troock
Hulak-Kane-Rallo

Lindell-Johns
Nemeth-Blacker
Evans-Mangene

Muse

Injuries, scratches, and notes:
McKenzie (callup)
Molin, Bystrom, Honka, Ully (scratch)
Elie (day-to-day upper body)
Backman (concussion)

Tonight's attendance was 3,619.

AHL Gamesheet - Texas at San Antonio - November 15 2015

Comments

  1. Have we won a game since Jack Campbell has been back? NOPE!

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    1. Last Wednesday, Texas beat San Antonio 6-3 with Campbell in net.

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  2. Wow a whole 2 game sample size! With math like that who can argue? Keep hating bro.

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  4. I think that they should have kept legace. He had been doing amazing and Campbell is more of a second half of the season guy. He proved that last year

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