Iowa returns home for three games at Xtream Arena next week starting Wed., Jan. 4 at 7:05 p.m. vs. Indy. The team is also home Fri., Jan. 6 and Sat., Jan. 7 at home, both 7:05 p.m. puck drops.
Alec Broetzman scored in the third to tie the game at the 8:26 mark of the third, 1-1, but Jeremy McKenna broke the tie less than five minutes later and the Mavericks won. On Broetzman’s goal, the 23rd Iowa shot, he backhanded the puck at the right post for his seventh of the season (2nd on team). Brendan Robbins and Bo Hanson assisted.
Iowa out shot Kansas City, 13-9, in a scoreless first frame. Kansas City stepped forward with 20 shots in the second and took a 1-0 lead by the end of the frame; Corbin Kaczperski was perfect on the first 18 of the period, but Pascal Laberge opened the scoring with his seventh of the campaign on a snipe from the right dot at 19:31 of the frame.
Shane Starrett won his fourth straight game against Iowa with 27 saves.
The Heartlanders are next at home to face the Indy Fuel in a three-game series beginning Wednesday, January 4 at 7:05 p.m.
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