{"id":592611,"date":"2026-04-18T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:22:08","slug":"2026-stanley-cup-playoffs-1st-round-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592611\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs 1st round schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Wild (C3) vs. Dallas Stars (C2)<\/p>\n<p>Game 1: Minnesota at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. ET April 18 (ESPN, SNO, SNW, SNP,\u00a0TVAS, FDSNWI,\u00a0FDSNNO, Victory+)<\/p>\n<p>Game 2: Minnesota at Dallas, 9:30 p.m. ET April 20 (ESPN, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNWI, FDSNNO, Victory+)<\/p>\n<p>Game 3: Dallas at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m. ET April 22 (TNT, truTV, HBO Max, SN360, TVAS, Victory+, FDSNNO, FDSNWI)<\/p>\n<p>Game 4: Dallas at Minnesota, 5:30 p.m. ET April 25 (TBS, truTV, HBO Max, SNO, SNW, SNP, TVAS, Victory+, FDSNNO, FDSNWI)<\/p>\n<p>*Game 5: Minnesota at Dallas, April 28 TBD<\/p>\n<p>*Game 6: Dallas at Minnesota, April 30 TBD<\/p>\n<p>*Game 7: Minnesota at Dallas, May 2 TBD<\/p>\n<p>*- If necessary<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/playoffs\/2026\/series-f-coverage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Complete coverage of Wild-Stars series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild (C3) vs. Dallas Stars (C2) Game 1: Minnesota at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. ET April 18 (ESPN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-592611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}