CEDAR PARK, Texas – Nick Ebert’s blast from the left circle in overtime put the finishing touch on a 4-3 win for the Texas Stars over the Chicago Wolves on Friday night at H-E-B Center at Cedar Park in front of 4,606 fans in attendance.
Ebert’s overtime-winner came on a 4-on-3 power play for Texas with 25 seconds to go in the extra frame. The defenseman’s eighth goal of the season also extended his point streak to five games and handed the Stars their fourth straight win. Justin Peters stopped 18 of 21 shots in net for Texas.
Texas (24-20-1-2) and Chicago (29-17-4-3) close out their weekend set Saturday at H-E-B Center at 7 p.m. CST.
Overtime was needed after the Wolves knotted the score with 45 seconds left in regulation when Samuel Blais’ centering pass deflected past Peters off the skate of Ty Loney. Entering the third period tied, Travis Morin had given the Stars a 3-2 advantage by deflecting Jason Dickinson’s wrist shot from the top of the circle just over a minute into the frame.
Texas opened up the scoring at 6:41 of the first after Dustin Stevenson’s point shot deflected past Chicago’s Jordan Binnington off Mike McMurtry. Morgan Ellis answered back for the Wolves with his sixth of the season at 10:31, but Brandon DeFazio pushed Texas back in front with an odd-man rush goal off Dickinson’s crossing feed three minutes later.
Blais scored the lone goal of the second period at 1:07 to tie the game again for Chicago.
Binnington stopped 25 of 29 shots in the loss for Chicago.
Texas was 1-for-5 on the power play thanks to Ebert’s goal. The Wolves were 0-for-3 as the Stars have now killed off 22 of their last 23 penalties over the last six games.
Morin’s goal was his 17th of the season, tying him with Matej Stransky for the team lead. Friday’s game was the Stars 12th win over Chicago in their last 14 meetings dating back to the 2013-14 season.
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