ROSEMONT, Ill.—The Chicago Wolves opened a two-game set against Central Division rival Texas Stars on Friday night at Allstate Arena.
Despite sending 43 shots on goal, the Wolves weren’t able to solve Stars netminder Remi Poirier and fell 3-0 for Chicago’s third loss in a row. It marked Poirier’s third shutout of the season.
“Their goalie played well,” Wolves captain Josiah Slavin said. “Forty-three shots and no goals against is always a good game for a goalie so you have to give props to him. But we need to learn from the mistakes that we made and not give up so many chances. We’ll learn from this.”
The Stars got on the board when Chase Wheatcroft found the back of the net with 31 seconds remaining in the opening period.
Midway through the second, Kole Lind’s goal pushed the Texas advantage to two goals and Emilio Pettersen’s shorthanded tally in the third capped the scoring.
Dustin Tokarski (27 saves) took the loss in goal for the Wolves while Poirier picked up the win for the Stars.
Chicago dropped to 30-26-3-0 on the season while Texas moved to 36-20-3-0.
The teams will meet again Sunday.
“Any time you get to play a team back to back there’s always a little bit of motivation if you lose that first one,” Slavin said. “You don’t like losing two in a row to the same team so we need to come back on Sunday and give it our all.”
Up next: The Wolves host the Texas Stars on Sunday (3 p.m.) at Allstate Arena.
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