{"id":615961,"date":"2026-04-18T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:02:10","slug":"2026-stanley-cup-playoffs-1st-round-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615961\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs 1st round schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Wild (C3) vs. Dallas Stars (C2)<\/p>\n<p>Game 1: Minnesota at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. ET April 18 (ESPN, SNO, SNW, SNP,\u00a0TVAS, FDSNWI,\u00a0FDSNNO, Victory+)<\/p>\n<p>Game 2: Minnesota at Dallas, 9:30 p.m. ET April 20 (ESPN, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNWI, FDSNNO, Victory+)<\/p>\n<p>Game 3: Dallas at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m. ET April 22 (TNT, truTV, HBO Max, SN360, TVAS, Victory+, FDSNNO, FDSNWI)<\/p>\n<p>Game 4: Dallas at Minnesota, 5:30 p.m. ET April 25 (TBS, truTV, HBO Max, SNO, SNW, SNP, TVAS, Victory+, FDSNNO, FDSNWI)<\/p>\n<p>*Game 5: Minnesota at Dallas, April 28 TBD<\/p>\n<p>*Game 6: Dallas at Minnesota, April 30 TBD<\/p>\n<p>*Game 7: Minnesota at Dallas, May 2 TBD<\/p>\n<p>*- If necessary<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/playoffs\/2026\/series-f-coverage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Complete coverage of Wild-Stars series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild (C3) vs. Dallas Stars (C2) Game 1: Minnesota at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. ET April 18 (ESPN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-615961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}