{"id":482769,"date":"2024-05-05T22:47:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482769"},"modified":"2024-05-05T22:47:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T02:47:20","slug":"stars-eliminate-defending-stanley-cup-champions-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/stars-eliminate-defending-stanley-cup-champions-golden-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars eliminate defending Stanley Cup champions Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radek Faksa broke a tie in his return to the Stars roster, Wyatt Johnston notched in another Game 7, and the Dallas Stars won against the defending Stanley Cup champ Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 at American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX, to clinch the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round matchup.<\/p>\n<p>After being unable to play with an undisclosed problem since leaving the bench near the end of Game 2, Faksa notched less than a minute into the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period with a backhander from the circle to the left of goaltender Adin Hill.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Night, Knights. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lexus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Lexus<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TexasHockey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TexasHockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T4lO4vOwpJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/T4lO4vOwpJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; z &#8211; Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DallasStars\/status\/1787303352797184491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger stopped 21 shots in his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Game 7 win. The goalie also had Dallas\u2019 only penalty, though they killed that off after he was called for tripping Ivan Barbashev in the middle of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas, the top seed in the Western Conference, will face Avalanche in the 2nd round, with the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 matches at American Airlines Center. Colorado clinched their matchup vs. the Jets with a Game 5 win a few days ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A valiant effort and incredible series \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenKnights?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GoldenKnights<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2WKuYlBPgb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2WKuYlBPgb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; z &#8211; Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DallasStars\/status\/1787306592452415825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brett Howden notched for the Golden Knights, which failed to secure another matchup winner in Texas, where in the past season Vegas clinched the West Conference Final with a victory in Game 6. Adin stopped 22 shots in his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> match of this matchup after Logan Thompson began from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute on the ice the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 4.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yZmXab3wcXU?si=Zc5exZYYcrkFzpOW\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radek Faksa broke a tie in his return to the Stars roster, Wyatt Johnston notched in another Game 7, and the Dallas Stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482770,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17191,17844,17212],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18103,17982,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Dallas beat Vegas 2-1 in Game 7 and advanced to the 2nd round.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482771,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482769\/revisions\/482771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482769"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482769"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}