Minnesota Wild

West 1st Round · Game 6 · Best of 7

YES!

Minnesota Wild beat the Dallas Stars

50-20-12, 112 PTS 2 – 5

46-24-12, 104 PTS

Final · Thu, Apr 30

Series: MIN wins 4-2

Game Details

Grand Casino Arena (Saint Paul) · 19,273 fans · TNT, truTV, FanDuel SN North, FanDuel SN WI, HBO Max View tournament bracket →

Recap

Wild beat Stars 5-2 for first playoff series win in 11 years

Quinn Hughes led Minnesota to its first playoff series victory in 11 years, scoring twice in the Wild’s 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars in Game 6 on Thursday night.

Recap via ESPN

Grand Casino Arena · Saint Paul

Line Score

	1	2	3	T
DAL	0	2	0	2
MIN	1	1	3	5

Game Leaders

Dallas Stars

Mavrik Bourque · 1Goals
Michael Bunting · 1Assists
Mavrik Bourque · 1Points

Minnesota Wild

Quinn Hughes · 2Goals
Quinn Hughes · 1Assists
Quinn Hughes · 3Points

2026-27 Central Division Standings

Team	W	L	OTL	Pts
Colorado	2	0	0	4
Minnesota	2	0	0	4
Utah	2	1	0	4
Winnipeg	1	0	1	3
Nashville	1	1	0	2
St. Louis	1	1	0	2
Dallas	0	2	0	0
Chicago	0	3	0	0

Scoring

3rd 19:45

ENG Matt Boldy Goal (6) Wrist Shot, assists: none2–5

3rd 18:29

ENG Matt Boldy Goal (5) Wrist Shot, assists: none2–4

3rd 10:38

Quinn Hughes Goal (2) Wrist Shot, assists: Brock Faber (3), Mats Zuccarello (4)2–3

2nd 17:02

Vladimir Tarasenko Goal (1) Backhand, assists: Quinn Hughes (6)2–2

2nd 16:08

Mavrik Bourque Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Michael Bunting (1), Ilya Lyubushkin (1)2–1

2nd 7:01

PPG Wyatt Johnston Goal (4) Snap Shot, assists: Mikko Rantanen (6), Matt Duchene (7)1–1

1st 6:23

Quinn Hughes Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Marcus Foligno (1), Nico Sturm (2)0–1

Team Stats

Dallas StarsMinnesota Wild

Shots & Puck

23 Shots on Goal 21

14 Blocked Shots 14

34 Hits 32

41.7 Faceoff % 58.3

3 Takeaways 4

9 Giveaways 10

Special Teams

1/2 Power Play 0/3

0 Short-Handed Goals 0

6 Penalty Minutes 4

Box Score

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
O. Back	0	0	-1	1	11:52	0	0	2	1	0:00	3:15	8:37	18	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
J. Benn	0	0	-2	0	11:46	0	2	0	0	0:00	0:00	11:46	16	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
C. Blackwell	0	0	-1	1	7:12	0	2	0	0	0:00	2:00	5:12	13	0	0	1	0.0	0	0
M. Bourque	1	0	0	5	15:09	0	5	0	0	0:00	0:00	15:09	20	0	4	3	57.1	1	0
M. Bunting	0	1	1	1	9:11	0	2	0	0	0:00	0:00	9:11	15	2	0	0	0.0	0	0
M. Duchene	0	1	-3	0	19:03	2	0	0	0	2:26	0:00	16:37	20	0	3	4	42.9	2	1
R. Faksa	0	0	-1	0	7:08	2	2	0	0	0:00	1:37	5:31	15	0	4	3	57.1	0	1
J. Hryckowian	0	0	0	4	15:35	0	6	2	0	0:02	1:31	14:02	21	0	5	10	33.3	0	0
W. Johnston	1	0	-1	3	23:26	0	0	1	0	2:24	0:00	21:02	23	2	6	10	37.5	0	0
M. Rantanen	0	1	-3	0	21:46	2	3	3	0	2:24	0:00	19:22	22	1	3	4	42.9	1	1
J. Robertson	0	0	-2	2	24:45	0	0	1	0	2:26	0:00	22:19	24	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
S. Steel	0	0	-2	0	13:35	0	0	0	1	0:00	2:16	11:19	20	0	0	0	0.0	1	0

Defense

Player	A	+/-	S	TOI	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV
L. Bichsel	0	0	1	13:55	3	1	0	0:00	1:25	12:30	18	1	0
T. Harley	0	-3	2	25:25	0	2	0	0:02	1:57	23:26	23	1	1
M. Heiskanen	0	-4	2	28:01	0	0	0	2:26	3:23	22:12	25	2	0
E. Lindell	0	0	0	22:14	0	1	0	0:00	3:56	18:18	27	0	1
I. Lyubushkin	1	0	1	14:32	3	1	1	0:00	0:00	14:32	19	1	1
A. Petrovic	0	0	0	11:55	6	0	0	0:00	0:00	11:55	16	0	1

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
J. Oettinger	16	19	3	.842	57:30	12	4	0	0

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
M. Boldy	2	0	2	5	24:08	0	1	2	0	4:32	0:34	19:02	24	0	1	0	100.0	0	0
J. Eriksson Ek	0	0	2	3	20:00	0	2	1	0	2:42	0:31	16:47	21	0	15	9	62.5	0	0
N. Foligno	0	0	1	1	10:22	0	5	2	0	0:00	1:23	8:59	18	0	0	2	0.0	0	0
M. Foligno	0	1	1	0	11:15	0	6	1	0	0:00	0:31	10:44	17	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
R. Hartman	0	0	0	0	18:32	2	0	0	1	2:38	0:00	15:54	22	5	8	5	61.5	1	1
M. Johansson	0	0	0	0	15:17	0	2	0	0	0:48	0:00	14:29	19	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
K. Kaprizov	0	0	2	1	22:11	0	4	1	2	4:25	0:00	17:46	23	1	0	0	0.0	4	0
M. McCarron	0	0	1	3	11:41	0	2	1	0	0:00	1:04	10:37	18	1	10	4	71.4	0	0
N. Sturm	0	1	1	0	8:59	0	4	0	0	0:00	0:50	8:09	15	0	1	4	20.0	0	0
V. Tarasenko	1	0	1	2	11:01	0	1	0	0	0:55	0:00	10:06	17	2	0	1	0.0	0	0
Y. Trenin	0	0	1	0	10:18	2	3	0	1	0:00	0:00	10:18	16	0	0	0	0.0	1	1
M. Zuccarello	0	1	0	2	18:05	0	0	0	0	4:06	0:00	13:59	19	1	0	0	0.0	0	0

Defense

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	HT	BS	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV
Z. Bogosian	0	0	0	0	11:37	0	2	0:00	1:00	10:37	19	0	0
B. Faber	0	1	3	0	29:53	1	1	0:41	1:57	27:15	34	1	2
Q. Hughes	2	1	2	3	28:55	0	2	4:39	0:01	24:15	30	0	1
J. Middleton	0	0	2	1	19:26	1	1	0:00	1:23	18:03	29	0	0
J. Petry	0	0	0	0	7:13	0	0	0:00	0:00	7:13	13	1	0
J. Spurgeon	0	0	1	0	18:54	0	0	1:14	0:30	17:10	30	1	1

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
J. Wallstedt	21	23	2	.913	59:07	20	0	1	0

Injury Report

Minnesota Wild

Danila Yurov RWDay-To-Day
Brock Faber DInjured Reserve
Filip Gustavsson GInjured Reserve

Dallas Stars

Matt Duchene CInjured Reserve
Harrison Scott CInjured Reserve
Luke Krys DInjured Reserve
Cameron Hughes CInjured Reserve

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