The game between the Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars will take place at Xcel Energy Center on Friday, April 28 at 9:30 PM ET.
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The Minnesota Wild will welcome the Dallas Stars to Xcel Energy Center for an NHL game on Friday. The Minnesota Wild lost 4-0 in their last game over the Stars. Wild coach Dean Evason said his group had watched the replay several times, and that “if anything, we felt their guy moved and our guy did not.”
Officials also reviewed the play, upholding the major penalty and issuing the game misconduct after a lengthy look at replays. “It took some life out of us for sure,” Evason said. Mason Marchment scored early in the second period and Ty Dellandrea added an empty-netter with 3:57 left for the Stars, who will try to close out the first-round playoff series Friday night in Game 6 at Minnesota. The seventh game, if needed, would be Sunday in Dallas.
Seguin put Dallas ahead to stay with his second-effort tally on the rebound of a shot by Robertson, who then made it 2-0 midway through the first on his 35-foot wrister through the legs of Filip Gustavsson. It was the second goal and fourth assist of the series for Robertson, who became the first 100-point scorer for Dallas this season.
The Dallas Stars on the other hand won 4-0 against the Wild in their last game. Tyler Seguin and the Dallas Stars are making the Minnesota Wild pay for all of those penalties, and now have the series lead for the first time. The Stars took advantage early in Game 5, and went on to a 4-0 victory Tuesday night. Seguin scored his fourth power-play of the series only 2:22 into the game, and just eight seconds after Wild forward Marcus Foligno’s five-minute major penalty and game misconduct for a knee-on-knee hit on Radek Faksa.
“Minnesota is one of the most penalized teams in the league, we knew we were going to get power plays,” Stars coach Pete DeBoer said. “So the goal was to make them pay for it. And we’re doing that, and we’ve got to keep doing that.” Jason Robertson also had a power-play goal in the first period, and like Seguin also had an assist. Roope Hintz had three assists and now has the highest-scoring playoff series ever for a Dallas player, while Jake Oettinger stopped 27 shots for his second career postseason shutout — and the first by any goalie this postseason.
Faksa remained face down on the ice after the collision with Foligno near the blue line, which came right after the Stars center had knocked the puck out of the air with his hand. Faksa had to be helped off the ice once he got up, but returned to the game midway through the first period.
Matt Boldy – Jonas Brodin – Connor Dewar
Brandon Duhaime – Matt Dumba – Brock Faber
Marcus Foligno – Frédérick Gaudreau – Filip Gustavsson
Ryan Hartman – Marcus Johansson
Kirill Kaprizov – John Klingberg
Jacob Middleton – Gustav Nyquist
Ryan Reaves – Jared Spurgeon
Sam Steel
Mats Zuccarello
Roope Hintz – Jason Robertson – Tyler Seguin
Ty Dellandrea – Max Domi – Miro Heiskanen
Mason Marchment – Ryan Suter – Jamie Benn
Evgenii Dadonov – Radek Faksa
Luke Glendening – Jani Hakanpää
Joel Hanley – Thomas Harley
Wyatt Johnston – Joel Kiviranta
Esa Lindell
Jake Oettinger
Minnesota Wild: Joel Eriksson Ek, Mason Shaw
Dallas Stars: Joe Pavelski
The game between the Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars will take place at Xcel Energy Center on Friday, April 28 at 9:30 PM ET.
The match between the Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars will be telecast live on Bally Sports Southwest, Fox Sports Southwest, TBS, Bally Sports North, Fox Sports North.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Bally Sports Southwest, Fox Sports Southwest, TBS, Bally Sports North, Fox Sports North. | April 28 (9:30 PM ET) |
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