{"id":245785,"date":"2026-04-12T02:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245785\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:31:13","slug":"stars-clinch-home-ice-in-first-round-playoff-series-vs-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245785\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars clinch home ice in first-round playoff series vs. Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> officially have home ice in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<p>The playoffs are set to begin on April 18, though it is not yet known what day the Stars-Wild first-round series will begin. Dallas held just a two-point lead on Minnesota in the standings earlier in the week, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/article\/dallas-stars-minnesota-wild-playoffs-preview-nhl-22197320.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Stars&#8217; win over the Wild on Thursday<\/a> gave them a comfortable cushion in the standings with just three games left in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas wraps up its regular season schedule with a pair of road games, first on Monday against Toronto and then on Wednesday against the Sabres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Dallas Stars officially have home ice in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Minnesota&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,88187,90780,93604],"class_list":{"0":"post-245785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-tp-jason-robertson","13":"tag-tp-nhl-playoffs","14":"tag-tp-stanley-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245785","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=245785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}