The Minnesota Wild host the Dallas Stars for Game 3 of their Stanley Cup Playoffs first round series on Wednesday, April 22.

From the first round all the way through the Stanley Cup Final, ESPN has you covered this NHL postseason.

Here's a preview for all of Thursday's games, plus a best bet and a recap of Wednesday's thrillers.

When will the game’s best player make his presence known in this first-round series between the Oilers and the Ducks?

Dan Vladar skated away behind the net, hunched over as he gripped his right arm in pain after the Penguins crashed into him ...

The Calgary Flames 2025-26 campaign is finally over. It's time to evaluate each player to dawn the Flames' uniform. First up, ...

In the real world, it has many meanings. In the NHL, it has even more: How "grind" came to define, and be defined by, hockey ...

A trade between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Montreal Canadiens in 2017 still has implications to this day.

Jankowski had an apparent game-winning goal overturned in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup playoff series against the Ottawa ...

Minnesota Wild right wing Matt Boldy was sidelined for about half of the first period of Game 3 of the first-round NHL ...

Wyatt Johnston scored on a power-play deflection at 12:10 of the second overtime to give the Dallas Stars a 4-3 victory over ...

In the case of Wednesday night’s encounter between the Flyers and Penguins, that game-changer came during a melee at 4:33 of ...