{"id":243242,"date":"2026-04-10T07:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:07:12","slug":"robertson-breaks-tie-in-3rd-period-lifts-stars-past-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243242\/","title":{"rendered":"Robertson breaks tie in 3rd period, lifts Stars past Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> scored twice, Quinn Hughes<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Mats Zuccarello<\/a>\u00a0had three assists, and Matt Boldy had two assists for the Wild (45-22-12), which snapped a four-game win streak. Filip Gustavsson<\/a>\u00a0made 15 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was tough. I felt like there were a few tough goals out there. For how we played, we should have gotten a better result today. I felt like we were playing pretty good,\u201d Gustavsson said. \u201cI think we got a taste of what small details we just have to be better at. We played too good to have the result we had today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Stars and Wild will face each other in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a couple of goals we gave up were just structural, there were some mistakes. Good on them, we made a mistake or didn\u2019t have the right read or timing on a play and it ended up in the back of the net. But I think there\u2019s lots we can take from this one for sure,\u201d Wild coach John Hynes said. \u201cEvery time you play, I think these two teams play each other it\u2019s always a hard-fought battle. Tonight, you saw some emotion in the game and I think that\u2019s to be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnston gave the Stars a 1-0 lead at 4:26 in the first period when he flipped in a loose puck at the left post.<\/p>\n

Quinn Hughes tied it 1-1 at 13:02, getting the puck back from Zuccarello as he crossed the blue line and beating Oettinger stick-side on a shot from the inside of the right face-off circle.<\/p>\n

With the goal, Quinn Hughes broke the Wild franchise record for points by a defenseman in the regular season (53 points; five goals, 48 assists in 47 games since his trade from Vancouver on Dec. 12, 2025).<\/p>\n

Kaprizov gave the Wild a 2-1 lead when he finished off a cross-ice pass on the back door on the power play at 19:44. He made it 3-1 at 6:39 of the second period when he punched in a rebound from the back side of the net on the power play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel we played pretty good. This is the game. Score more goals and win. It\u2019s OK. We just keep going. We still have a couple of games left and just keep playing. It was a good game,\u201d Kaprizov said. \u201cI feel pretty good and it\u2019s always an exciting time. It\u2019s the best time of the year. We still have a couple of games left and want to focus on those games. If we play Dallas (in the first round), we just have to be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirill Kaprizov scored twice, Quinn Hughes had a goal and an assist, Mats Zuccarello\u00a0had three assists, and Matt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-243242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}