{"id":257906,"date":"2026-04-20T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:40:09","slug":"game-two-preview-wild-at-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257906\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Two Preview: Wild at Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS, Tex. &#8212; The Wild returns tonight, ready to take on Dallas again after defeating the Stars 6-1 on Saturday night in Game 1 of the First Round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Minnesota opened the series with significant effort, leading to success and a 1-0 start in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Both Matt\u00a0Boldy and Joel Eriksson Ek had a three-point game (2-1=3), while Jesper Wallstedt dominated in net, saving 27-of-28 shots on goal for a .964 SV%. Mats Zuccarello (0-3=3) and Kirill Kaprizov (1-2=3) also had three-point performances in the blowout win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, the Wild will meet the Stars again, Minnesota hoping to strike the same chemistry on-ice and dig deeper into the fast and aggressive play that led to the win on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS, Tex. &#8212; The Wild returns tonight, ready to take on Dallas again after defeating the Stars 6-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-257906","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\/257906","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=257906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}