Game

Wild at Stars

Wild 6, Stars 1 · first star Jesper Wallstedt (0 GA, .964 SV%).

2025-26 Stanley Cup Playoffs · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Minnesota Wild 6 at Dallas Stars 1

Wild MIN

6 FINAL 1

Stars DAL

Playoffs Saturday, April 18, 2026 · 5:30 PM ET · American Airlines Center, Dallas · TV ESPN · SN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	1	3	2	6	29
Stars	0	1	0	1	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild attack left, Stars attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: MIN 29, DAL 28.

MIN in red DAL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 29 shots on goal (6 goals, 8 missed, 8 blocked) attacking left; Stars 28 shots on goal (1 goal, 8 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	DAL SOG	DAL G	DAL ATT
1st	11	1	15	8	0	12
2nd	13	3	23	8	1	13
3rd	5	2	7	12	0	30
Total	29	6	45	28	1	55

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	DAL SOG	DAL G
Even strength	22	4	18	0
Power play	7	2	10	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Stars took 55.0% of the shot attempts, and 53.3% of the 75 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Stars and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Stars
Period	DAL CF%	DAL FF%
1st	44.4	43.5
2nd	36.1	35.7
3rd	81.1	72.7
Game	55.0	49.3

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

05:35 Joel Eriksson Ek (1) PP Matt Boldy (1), Mats Zuccarello (1) · snap 1–0

2nd period

00:56 Kirill Kaprizov (1) Ryan Hartman (1), Mats Zuccarello (2) · snap 2–0
03:28 Ryan Hartman (1) Brock Faber (1), Quinn Hughes (1) · deflected 3–0
06:30 Matt Boldy (1) Kirill Kaprizov (1), Joel Eriksson Ek (1) · snap 4–0
15:10 Jason Robertson (1) PP Wyatt Johnston (1), Miro Heiskanen (1) · backhand 4–1

3rd period

08:13 Joel Eriksson Ek (2) PP Kirill Kaprizov (2), Mats Zuccarello (3) · snap 5–1
16:52 Matt Boldy (2) EN Unassisted · wrist 6–1

Three stars

Jesper Wallstedt MIN · G #30 · 0 GA, .964 SV%
Kirill Kaprizov MIN · L #97 · 1 G, 2 A
Mats Zuccarello MIN · R #36 · 0 G, 3 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	04:32	DAL	Tyler Myers	elbowing	2	Mats Zuccarello
1st	08:23	MIN	Marcus Johansson	slashing	2	Esa Lindell
1st	18:11	DAL	Mikko Rantanen	high sticking	2	Zach Bogosian
2nd	04:14	DAL	Mikko Rantanen	tripping	2	Jared Spurgeon
2nd	14:06	MIN	Danila Yurov	cross checking	2	Matt Duchene
3rd	03:38	MIN	Jonas Brodin	holding	2	Mikko Rantanen
3rd	07:31	DAL	Esa Lindell	tripping	2	Yakov Trenin
3rd	10:43	MIN	Matt Boldy	slashing	2	Mavrik Bourque
3rd	10:43	DAL	Mavrik Bourque	slashing	2	Matt Boldy
3rd	14:43	MIN	Nick Foligno	holding	2	Esa Lindell

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	2	1	3	+1	5	2	0	0	57.1	19:05
Matt Boldy #12	L	2	1	3	+2	8	2	1	2	100.0	17:50
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	1	2	3	+3	2	2	0	0	0.0	17:58
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	0	3	3	+2	1	2	1	0	0.0	16:41
Ryan Hartman #38	R	1	1	2	+2	1	2	3	0	58.3	16:05
Brock Faber #7	D	0	1	1	+4	3	0	1	0	0.0	24:35
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	+3	1	0	1	0	0.0	24:30
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	46.2	12:45
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	0	1	13	2	0	0.0	13:36
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	+1	0	7	0	0	0.0	13:03
Marcus Johansson #90	L	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	2	0.0	12:14
Nick Foligno #71	L	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	2	50.0	10:51
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	10:22
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	14:36
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	15:29
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	0	0.0	18:40
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0.0	19:35
Zach Bogosian #24	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0.0	13:01

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jesper Wallstedt #30	W	28	27	1	.964	18/18	9/10	60:00

Dallas Stars

Stars skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jason Robertson #21	L	1	0	1	-1	6	0	0	0	0.0	19:56
Wyatt Johnston #53	C	0	1	1	-3	4	3	0	0	33.3	21:44
Miro Heiskanen #4	D	0	1	1	-1	4	0	0	0	0.0	23:55
Colin Blackwell #15	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	50.0	11:03
Justin Hryckowian #49	C	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	77.8	13:00
Matt Duchene #95	C	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	40.0	20:07
Mavrik Bourque #22	C	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	2	50.0	15:59
Oskar Bäck #10	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	10:20
Radek Faksa #12	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	33.3	11:17
Sam Steel #18	C	0	0	0	-2	0	3	0	0	50.0	15:41
Adam Erne #73	L	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	08:07
Jamie Benn #14	L	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	0.0	11:55
Mikko Rantanen #96	R	0	0	0	-3	3	2	0	4	100.0	21:22
Esa Lindell #23	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0.0	21:18
Lian Bichsel #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	15:21
Nils Lundkvist #5	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	2	0	0.0	17:55
Thomas Harley #55	D	0	0	0	-3	1	1	1	0	0.0	19:40
Tyler Myers #57	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	1	2	0.0	15:01

Stars goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Oettinger #29	L	28	23	5	.821	18/21	5/7	58:34

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.