{"id":150920,"date":"2026-01-27T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:26:16","slug":"kaprizov-leads-3-stars-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150920\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaprizov leads 3 Stars of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Minnesota Wild left wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kirill-kaprizov-8478864\" title=\"Kirill Kaprizov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirill Kaprizov<\/a>, Tampa Bay Lightning right wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikita-kucherov-8476453\" title=\"Nikita Kucherov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a> and Anaheim Ducks goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lukas-dostal-8480843\" title=\"Lukas Dostal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Dostal<\/a> have been named the NHL\u2019s \u201cThree Stars\u201d presented by GEICO for the week ending Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p>FIRST STAR \u2013 KIRILL KAPRIZOV, LW, MINNESOTA WILD<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov recorded multiple points in all four of his contests to top the NHL with 3-6\u20149 overall and lift the Wild (29-14-10, 68 points) into second place in the Central Division via a 2-1-1 week. He collected a pair of assists in both a 6-3 win versus the Toronto Maple Leafs Jan. 19 and a 4-3 loss to the Montreal Canadiens Jan. 20. Kaprizov then posted 2-1\u20143, including his 13th career overtime goal, in a 4-3 victory against the Detroit Red Wings Jan. 22. He added 1-1\u20142, his fifth straight multi-point performance dating to Jan. 17 (3-9\u201412), in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Florida Panthers Jan. 24. The 28-year-old Kaprizov ranks sixth in the NHL with 28-36\u201464 through 53 total appearances this season. He also sits among the top 10 in the League in power-play goals (t-3rd; 11), shots on goal (t-4th; 190), goals (t-5th; 28), even-strength points (t-7th; 42) and power-play points (t-9th; 22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Minnesota Wild left wing Kirill Kaprizov, Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov and Anaheim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-150920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}