{"id":349913,"date":"2026-06-25T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349913\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:46:14","slug":"nhl-draft-prospect-j-p-hurlbert-shows-texas-hockey-dreams-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349913\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL draft prospect J.P. Hurlbert shows Texas hockey dreams \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRVING \u2014 There may not be a place where J.P. Hurlbert feels more comfortable than skating on his home rink. <\/p>\n<p>The Children\u2019s Health StarsCenter in Valley Ranch has been his hockey home since he was 4 years old. <\/p>\n<p>For over a decade, he\u2019s spent six days a week training at the facility operated by his hometown Dallas Stars, improving his game and visualizing his dream of playing in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>As Hurlbert runs drills and practices his shot, he looks to the back wall that is lined with two rows of banners. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/sports\/nhl\/nhl-draft-2026-order-dates-times-channel-stream\/4040329\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL Draft begins Friday<\/a> night. The Stars do not have a pick in the first round as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/article\/jp-hurlbert-nhl-draft-first-round-allen-texas-22253181.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">You can read more from our media partner, The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVING \u2014 There may not be a place where J.P. Hurlbert feels more comfortable than skating on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1242,102,1115,8709,1116,109036,2484,124746,154,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-349913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-allen","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasnews-com","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349913","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=349913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}