{"id":549004,"date":"2026-04-09T21:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549004\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:18:36","slug":"morning-skate-tidbits-from-dallas-vs-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549004\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Skate Tidbits from Dallas vs. Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sticks from another game<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Wild are in town to play the Dallas Stars in a game that will either clarify home-ice advantage in the first round or muddy things up somethin\u2019 fierce. <\/p>\n

So ahead of tonight\u2019s game on ESPN+\/Hulu, here are some things I saw and heard today at morning skate. <\/p>\n

Speaking of national broadcasts, Dallas\u2019s final game of the season in Buffalo has been picked up by TNT<\/a>, though local fans will still be able to view their teams\u2019 regular broadcasts. If you\u2019re out of market and were hoping to watch that game live on ESPN+, that might be bad news. (Sorry, John.)<\/p>\n

Dallas is going back to a 12F\/6D lineup tonight with Jake Oettinger in goal. Here\u2019s what that lines and pairings looked like in rushes today: <\/p>\n

Hryckowian-Johnston-Rantanen
Robertson-Duchene-Bourque
Erne-Hyry-Benn
Hughes-B\u00e4ck-Blackwell<\/p>\n

Lindell-Heiskanen
Harley-Myers
Bichsel-Lyubushkin<\/p>\n

Nils Lundkvist was not at morning skate. Glen Gulutzan said he\u2019s sick, though it isn\u2019t expected to be a long-term illness. <\/p>\n

Michael Bunting and Radek Faksa skated, though neither participated in line rushes. Yesterday, Gulutzan said they\u2019re hoping Bunting can play Saturday, and Faksa on Monday. <\/p>\n

Cameron Hughes will play his second NHL game since his recall. <\/p>\n

In talking to Hughes today, he said the 8:00 start tonight is a first for him. Once in a while, an AHL game might have a 7:30 start, but never 8:00pm. It\u2019ll be a bit of a routine change for him today, though he said he might try to get a walk in to help pass the time. It\u2019s certainly a nice day for it. <\/p>\n

Arttu Hyry said the schedule doesn\u2019t bother him too much. He doesn\u2019t tend to take a long nap on game days, but there are plenty of other things he can get done during that time. He listed a few standard activities, but then I heard the word \u201cschoolwork,\u201d and I had to make sure I heard him right. Turns out, I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sticks from another game The Minnesota Wild are in town to play the Dallas Stars in a game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-549004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116376838764508632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}