The quest for the Stanley Cup begins Saturday when the Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars begin their first-round playoff series.<\/p>\n
Game 1 was already set<\/a> but the NHL has now released start times and TV details for three additional games.<\/p>\n Game 1: Saturday, April 18 at 4:30 p.m. on FanDuel Sports and ESPNGame 2: Monday, April 20 at 8:30 p.m. on FanDuel Sports and ESPNGame 3: Wednesday, April 22 at 8:30 p.m. on FanDuel Sports and TNT\/truTVGame 4: Saturday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m. on FanDuel Sports and TBS\/truTV<\/p>\n If necessary, Games 5-7 would take place on April 28, April 30 and May 2, although start times and broadcast information are still dependent upon the results of the rest of the NHL playoffs.<\/p>\n WATCH: Wild ready to begin playoff series vs. Dallas on Saturday afternoon<\/a><\/p>\n Despite finishing the regular season with the third-most points in the Western Conference, the Wild will be the road team against their Central Division foes, who finished with the second-most points in the conference. That means Minnesota will host Games 3, 4 and 6 (if necessary) while playing the others in Dallas.<\/p>\n The Wild have not advanced past the first round of the playoffs since 2015.<\/p>\n RELATED: Former Wild coach and TV analyst Bruce Boudreau breaks down playoff matchup vs. Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n Watch Party<\/p>\n For fans who aren\u2019t headed to Dallas, the Wild will host a watch party at Grand Casino Arena for Game 1.<\/p>\n The event is free and open to the public, but a valid ticket is required. Tickets can be claimed here.<\/a><\/p>\n Gate 1 will open at 4 p.m. Saturday, and the Wild will give complimentary LED rally towels to the first 1,000 fans.<\/p>\n The Hockey Lodge and some concessions will be open during the watch party.<\/p>\n The team says it has planned pre-game parties at the arena for all home games during the playoff series.<\/p>\n More Wild Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Minnesota Wild<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0NHL<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Wild<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quest for the Stanley Cup begins Saturday when the Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars begin their first-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2960,2484,14950],"class_list":["post-255500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255500","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=255500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}