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The Texas Stars swept the Chicago Wolves in a weekend series at Allstate Arena and officially clinched a spot in the 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs.

In Friday's contest, the Stars and Wolves played nearly the entire first period without any scoring but with just 31 seconds left in the frame, Chase Wheatcroft broke the deadlock and scored his 10th of the year. Wheatcroft skated into the slot, drew a hooking penalty that gave the Stars a temporary extra attacker due to the delayed penalty, and cleaned up a rebound off of Matej Blumel's initial shot. Texas carried a 1-0 lead into the first intermission.

In the middle frame, just before the halfway point, an odd play near the Chicago blue line led to Kole Lind firing the puck towards Dustin Tokarski's net, where a moving Cameron Hughes tricked him, leading to the puck bouncing past Tokarski and in. Lind's goal gave Texas a 2-0 lead after 40 minutes..

The third period began with more Chicago chances, but Remi Poirier stood tall in net for Texas. Just over six minutes into the period, Emilio Pettersen tallied his second short-handed goal of the season when he put the pressure on Chicago's power play unit behind their own net, stole the puck, tried a wraparound, and cleaned up his own rebound to extend the Stars' lead to three.
The Wolves made an effort to comeback but nothing was getting by Poirier. He made 43 saves on 43 shots to earn his third shutout of the season and fourth of his career. The Stars skated away with a 3-0 win on Friday—needing just one point to clinch a spot in the Calder Cup Playoffs.

Saturday, the Stars were idle but they could clinch a spot through an Iowa Wild loss of any kind against the Ontario Reign. Saturday's match between those two ended with a 4-2 Iowa win, so the Stars fate was back in their own hands.

Sunday, the Stars opened the scoring just five minutes into the first period, before adding two more goals within a three minute window. Hughes lit the lamp first, sniping the puck past Ruslan Khazheyev from the left circle for his 21st goal of the year. Next, Blumel tallied his 34th of the season with a one-timer from high in the slot off a pass from linemate, Justin Hyrckowian. After that, Lind scored on the power play when Kyle Capobianco found him all alone in the left circle. Lind one-timed a shot past Khazheyev to make it a 3-0 lead just eight minutes into the game.

Toward the end of the first, the Wolves got on the board for the first time in two games against Remi Poirier, who had shut them out March 2 and again Friday, when Bradly Nadeau scored twice to bring Chicago back within one. The Stars led 3-2 after 20 minutes of play.

In the middle frame, Blumel scored his league-leading 35th goal of the season just over one minute into play. He raced up the left wing and was one-on-one with a defender, before sniping the puck past Khazheyev to make the score 4-2. After the fourth goal, the Wolves pulled their goaltender and Tokarski entered the game. The Stars put up only three shots in the period while Chicago logged 12 but Poirier didn't let anything by him. At the end of two, the score was 4-2 Texas.

In the final period, the Stars added another goal quickly, this time from the stick of captain Curtis McKenzie. McKenzie positioned himself in front of the net and cleaned up the rebound in front, off of a Blumel shot.
The Stars kept the 5-2 lead through the rest of the game and secured their spot in the 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs with a win.

The Texas Stars visit the Grand Rapids Griffins on Wednesday for one game and then head to Cleveland, Ohio for two games against the Cleveland Monsters over the weekend.

The Griffins are currently in third place of the Central Division with a record of 32-24-4-2 and 70 points. They need just 4 points to clinch a playoff spot.
Grand Rapids is led by Joe Snively who has 39 points in 62 games. Their next leading scorers are both called up to the Detroit Red Wings at the moment, Austin Watson and Dominik Shine, who both have 37 points in 56 and 53 games, respectively.

This season against Grand Rapids, the Stars are 3-2-0-0 with the two losses coming on December 17th and February 25th. Matej Blumel and Arttu Hyry have been the biggest threat against the Griffins this season—each of them have logged seven points in five games.

Cleveland is currently in the middle of the pack in the North Division in fourth place with a record of 30-21-5-5 and 70 points. They are led by Rocco Grimaldi and Trey Fix-Wolansky who have 51 and 50 points, respectively.

The last meeting between the two teams led to a Texas weekend sweep of Cleveland. The first game ended 4-1 thanks to goals from Jack Becker, Justin Hyrckowian, Matej Blumel and Emilio Pettersen. Remi Poirier also logged 38 saves on 39 shots.
In the second game, the score was much closer, but thanks to a hat trick from Matej Blumel, the Stars came out on top 5-4. Magnus Hellberg earned his 21st win, good for third in the league (T-Devon Levi).

The Monsters are 4-6-0-0 in their last 10 games—including two losses by shutout.

(x) represents teams that have clinched a spot in the 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs.

A total of 23 teams will qualify for the 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs, with five rounds of playoffs leading to the crowning of a Calder Cup champion. View the Playoff Primer here.

The playoff field will include the top six finishers in the eight-team Atlantic Division, the top five finishers each in the seven-team North and Central Divisions, and the top seven teams in the 10-team Pacific Division.

First Round match-ups will be best-of-three series; the two highest seeds in the Atlantic, the three highest seeds in each of the North and Central, and the first-place team in the Pacific will receive byes into the best-of-five Division Semifinals, with the First Round winners re-seeded in each division.

The Division Finals will also be best-of-five series, followed by best-of-seven Conference Finals and a best-of-seven Calder Cup Finals series.

TEXAS to DALLAS (AHL to NHL)
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DALLAS to TEXAS (NHL to AHL)
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TEXAS to IDAHO (AHL to ECHL)
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IDAHO to TEXAS (ECHL to AHL)
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MARCH

The Stars finish out March on the road with one game in Grand Rapids and two games against the North Division's Cleveland Monsters.

APRIL

The Stars kick off the final month of the regular season at home with a four-game homestand, starting with two games against the Iowa Wild on April 1 and 2 then finishing up the homestand against the Milwaukee Admirals on April 5 and 6.

From there, the Stars will go back on the road for the final time of the regular season to Grand Rapids for two games on April 11 and 12 and finish up in Chicago on April 13.

Similar to last year, the Stars will finish the regular season at home on April 18 and 19 against the Manitoba Moose.