{"id":256069,"date":"2026-04-18T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256069\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:25:08","slug":"dallas-hosts-minnesota-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256069\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas hosts Minnesota in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Dallas Stars<\/a> are opening their playoff run against the Minnesota Wild at 4:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at American Airlines Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dallas and Minnesota have only faced each other twice in the playoffs before \u2014 in the first rounds in 2016 and 2023. The Stars won both series in six games.<\/p>\n<p>How will the Stars fare in Game 1?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow along for live updates, analysis, highlights, photos and more from our crew at American Airlines Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan told reporters an hour before puck drop that defenseman Miro Heiskanen will play for Dallas in Game 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars are opening their playoff run against the Minnesota Wild at 4:30 p.m. CT on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87994,89489,90779,90855],"class_list":["post-256069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-stars","tag-tp-american-airlines-center","tag-tp-mikko-rantanen","tag-tp-miro-heiskanen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256069","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=256069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}