{"id":252140,"date":"2026-04-16T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:18:08","slug":"stars-close-regular-season-with-shootout-win-against-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252140\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars close regular season with shootout win against Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stars finished second in the Central Division and will face the third-place Minnesota Wild in the Western Conference First Round in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n

Zach Benson<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Owen Power<\/a> had two assists for the Sabres (50-23-9), whose four-game winning streak ended. Colten Ellis<\/a>\u00a0made 25 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was a good effort,\u201d Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said. \u201cStarted the game well. I thought overall we did a lot of good things in that game. Made a few mistakes that cost us goals, handed them a couple of goals. But we had a great opportunity late to win it and then a couple of opportunities in overtime.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sabres won the Atlantic Division and will face the Boston Bruins, the first wild card, in the Eastern Conference First Round.<\/p>\n

Mavrik Bourque<\/a> gave Dallas a 1-0 lead at 2:19 of the first period with his 20th goal of the season. Lindell\u2019s shot from the left point bounced off the end boards and out the opposite side for Bourque, who was on the doorstep.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s playing unbelievable,\u201d Hryckowian said of Bourque. \u201cI think the whole locker room\u2019s just so fired up for him. Just an unreal teammate, obviously a great player. He\u2019s been working for it for a long time and he\u2019s waited his turn, and I feel like he\u2019s having his moment now and the best is yet to come still.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stars finished second in the Central Division and will face the third-place Minnesota Wild in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-252140","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\/252140","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=252140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}