{"id":640293,"date":"2026-05-01T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640293\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:31:11","slug":"quinn-hughes-scores-two-as-wild-eliminate-stars-with-game-6-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640293\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn Hughes scores two as Wild eliminate Stars with Game 6 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Quinn Hughes<\/a> led Minnesota to its first playoff series victory in 11 years, scoring twice in the Wild\u2019s 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars<\/a> in Game 6 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Minnesota will face Presidents Trophy winner Colorado in the second round. The Avalanche have not played since sweeping Los Angeles on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Wild won a playoff series for the first time in 10 tries since 2015. The past eight came in the first round, including against Dallas in 2016 and 2023.<\/p>\n

After Hughes broke a tie midway through the third period, Matt Boldy<\/a> scored his team-leading fifth and sixth goals of the series into empty nets to seal it. Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a> also scored and Jesper Wallstedt<\/a> made 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Hughes, acquired from Vancouver in December in the biggest trade in franchise history, took a shot from the left dot that deflected off the skate of Stars defenseman Ilya Lyubshkin and past goalie Jake Oettinger<\/a>. Hughes also had an assist.<\/p>\n

All three Wild goals came at full strength. Minnesota outscored Dallas 17-5 at even strength in the series, including 12-4 at five-on-five.<\/p>\n

Wyatt Johnston<\/a> and Mavrik Bourque<\/a> scored for Dallas. Johnston had the league-high 10th power-play goal of the postseason for the Stars. Minnesota had three power-play goals in the series.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Mike Cook, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Quinn Hughes led Minnesota to its first playoff series victory in 11 years,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,115588,79561,149445,82],"class_list":["post-640293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas-stars-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-25","tag-minnesota-wild-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-30","tag-quinn-hughes-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8480800","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}