Carson Lambos' 1:55 OT Goal Lifts Iowa Wild Past Moose 3-2

Carson Lambos ended a choppy, physical game 1:55 into overtime, collecting a centering feed from Oskar Olausson and snapping a shot past Thomas Milic’s blocker to lift the Iowa Wild to a 3-2 victory over the Manitoba Moose at Canada Life Centre. The Iowa Wild official game report lists the OT winner at 1:55; an automated recap published elsewhere listed 1:00, but the team’s play-by-play and box summary use the 1:55 mark.

Iowa struck first at 9:24 of the opening period when Mike Koster fired a pass to Carson Lambos that drew a save and Riley Heidt finished the rebound with a backhand through Milic. The Moose responded late in the first. At 15:16 Danny Zhilkin set up Isaak Phillips for a shorthanded one-timer that beat William Rousseau glove side to even the score. With 2:41 remaining in the period Zhilkin carved around Rousseau and tucked a finish home to put Manitoba ahead 2-1. Iowa outshot Manitoba 13-9 in that first frame.

The middle period produced no scoring and nine shots apiece, a scoreless second that left the game finely balanced heading to the third. Dylan Gambrell forced the decisive response early in the final frame when he chipped the puck into the offensive zone and Tyler Pitlick drove to the net to tie it at 4:26. Iowa’s play-by-play describes Pitlick sliding a forehand under Milic; an independent recap characterized the finish as five-hole after Pitlick got around Isaak Phillips. Both accounts point to Pitlick’s timely drive as the catalyst for the equalizer.

Overtime ended when Iowa put sustained pressure on the Moose zone and Lambos finished the sequence. Some recaps framed the winning play as the result of a Manitoba defensive miscue on a 2-on-1; one outlet even misidentified Lambos as a Winnipegger. The Iowa team report, which supplied the official timing and assist detail crediting Olausson, does not cast the play as an error but as a clean centering pass and snap shot.

Thomas Milic finished with 33 saves for Manitoba and William Rousseau had 25 saves for Iowa. Iowa outshot Manitoba 36-27 for the game. Special teams were quiet: each club had two power plays and neither converted. Independent game notes list Zhilkin with a multi-point outing (1 goal, 1 assist) and Jaret Anderson-Dolan with two assists; one recap reported Zhilkin’s goal as his 10th of the season and Phillips’ shorthanded goal as Phillips’ fourth.

Manitoba’s lineup had been affected by NHL call-ups, with David Minuk noting four players still up with the Winnipeg Jets and names returning to the Moose lineup including Dylan Anhorn, Dawson Barteaux and Fabian Wagner. Minuk also reported that the Moose remain without an OT win this season but have collected points in three straight games, narrowing the gap on the Stars for third place in the division with four games in hand. The clubs meet again Sunday at 2 p.m. at Canada Life Centre to close out the weekend series.