The Manitoba Moose (33-29-5-1) host their final home game of the regular season on Sunday against the Texas Stars (35-29-3-2). The Moose held on to beat the Stars 5-4 in a shootout on Friday night, winning their second game in their past three outings. Manitoba is 4-6-0-0 over the past 10 games. The loss was the Stars’ third consecutive, dropping them to 4-5-0-1 in their past 10 games.

Tickets are available for tonight’s game at moosehockey.com/tickets. Coverage of today’s matchup gets going at 1:45 p.m. CT on CJOB.com, the Winnipeg Jets App and AHLTV on FloHockey. Action at Canada Life Centre begins at 2 p.m. CT.

Home Finale

The Moose finish off the home portion of their regular season schedule against the Texas Stars on Sunday afternoon. With 37 points at Canada Life Centre, Manitoba will finish the season better than .500 at home, regardless of Sunday’s result. It is the first time since 2022-23 that the Moose will finish with at least 36 points on home ice. Mason Shaw and Jaret Anderson-Dolan are tied for the clubhouse lead with 21 points at Canada Life Centre, while Anderson-Dolan, David Gustafsson, and Danny Zhilkin are tied for the team lead with eight goals each.

The Best Defence is a Good Offence

The Moose are tied for third in the AHL with 11 shorthanded goals as a team this season, adding one more to their total on Friday night. They own the league’s 11th-ranked penalty kill, clicking at an 82.8 percent rate, while scoring on 4.8 percent of their penalty kill opportunities. Walker Duehr leads the Moose with five shorthanded goals in 2025-26, tied for the most in the league. Duehr is also tied with Mike Brown (2005-06) for the second-most shorthanded goals in a single Moose season. John Albert (2013-14) holds the record with six.

Cap Hits 200

Mason Shaw recorded an assist on Walker Duehr’s goal on Friday night for his 200th AHL point (75G, 125A). Manitoba’s captain leads the Moose with 42 points (15G, 27A) through his 67 games this season, and his plus-six rating is third on the club. The Wainwright, Alta. native has played 139 games as a member of the Moose, scoring 79 points (32G, 47A), leading the team in scoring a season ago. He would be just the fourth player to lead the Moose in scoring for consecutive seasons. Drafted in the fourth round by the Minnesota Wild in 2017, Shaw scored 121 points (43G, 78A) in 197 games with the Iowa Wild, before joining the Moose. Shaw represented Canada at the Spengler Cup in December, scoring one goal in three games.

Point-Per-Game Anhorn

Dylan Anhorn’s five points (1G, 4A) through five games in April lead the Moose, with the three players trailing him tied at three points. The Calgary, Alta native has 16 points (3G, 13A) in 42 games this season, matching his totals for goals, assists, and points exactly from his rookie season in 2024-25, doing so in five fewer games. Anhorn has recorded at least one point in all but one of his past six games, but with a multi-assist night on Friday, has been a point-per-game player with six points (1G, 5A) dating back to March 31 at Toronto. Anhorn has 33 points (6G, 27A) in 91 career AHL games with the Moose, 

Who’s Trending?

Nikita Chibrikov contributed a pair of assists and a shootout goal in Manitoba’s 5-4 win over Texas on Friday, bringing him to 16 points (6G, 10A) through 53 games this season. The Moscow, Russia native has five points (1G, 4A) over his past six games, including two multi-point games. Chibrikov played in his 150th AHL game on April 4 vs. Grand Rapids.