AHL Playoff Preview: Texas Stars at Grand Rapids Griffins with Line Combinations 4/29/2025

AHL Playoff Preview: Texas Stars at Grand Rapids Griffins with Line Combinations 4/29/2025
Rick Crossman – Inside The Rink

Game 1: Texas Stars at Grand Rapids Griffins

Venue: Van Andel Arena
Date: Tuesday, April 29
Time: 7:00 pm EDT
TV: FLO Sports 

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Texas Stars News & Notes:

The Stars start this series against Grand Rapids with home ice advantage. They finished the regular season going 43-26-3-0 with 89 points. Texas last played on April 19th and lost 1-0 to the Manitoba Moose. They went 5-3-0-0 against the Griffins in the regular season averaging 3.4 goals per game.

Grand Rapids Griffins News & Notes:

The Griffins start with two home games before hitting the road in this best-of-five series with Texas. Grand Rapids went 37-29-4-2 in the regular season. They ended the regular season with a 2-1 shootout win over the Iowa Wild. The Griffins went 3-3-2-0 against the Stars in the regular season, averaging 2.8 goals per game.

Texas Stars Projected Lines

Blumel-Hyry-Lind
McKenzie-Scott-Romano
Pettersen-Becker-Wheatcroft
Ertel-Chisholm-Seminoff

Taylor-Krys
Karow-Kyrou
Looft-White

Hellberg
Poirier

Grand Rapids Griffins Projected Lines

Snively-Danielson-Watson
Dries-Lombardi-Shine
Finnie-Becher-Brandsegg-Nygard
Johannes-Gettinger-Doucet

Wallinder-Sandin-Pellikka
Rafferty-Tuomisto
Viro-Didier

Cossa
Campbell

Players To Watch:

Texas Stars

Matej Blumel led the Stars in points and goals with 72 points and 39 goals. Kyle Capobianco led the team in assists in the regular season with 43, he also led the team in plus/minus as he was a +25.  

Grand Rapids Griffins

Joe Snively led the Griffins in points with 47. Sheldon Dries led the team in goals with 25. Dominik Shine led the team in assists. Josiah Didier and Austin Watson were the active leaders on the team in plus/minus, both were a plus-ten.

Next Game

Game 2: Monday, May 5 at Van Andel Arena

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