By Kris Smith
The Stars regained defenseman, Elijah Vilio after he missed the last two games through illness but continued to be without first-choice keeper, Kevin Carr and that meant 21-year-old, Lucas Brine made back-t0-back starts.
Both teams got off to a good start as they found ways to get pucks on net and test both goalies early on but Dundee would then gain an early powerplay chance as former Star, Jordan Kelsall was called for a trip on Tommy Parrottino.
The Tayside team could not take an early lead however as they failed to capitalise on the man advantage and were made to rue their missedc chances when Logan Neilson beat Brine in close on 12 minutes.
Then six minutes later, Hugo Roy fired a low shot into the left corner to double the lead for the Panthers and send them 2-0 up heading into the first break, despite some testing attacks from Dundee.
In the second session, Alexander Lunsjo shot across goal and found the left side of the net inside 24 minutes, to make it 3-0 as the Stars struggled to find a way back and Otto Nieminen would extend the home side’s advantage to 4-0 in the 35th minute as he tipped Myles McGurty’s effort past Brine.
Despite the Panthers killer offensive production, Rok Stojanovic was doing well to keep his side ahead as he made a number of crucial stops to keep the Stars out.
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