Bring your pillows and blankets to the American Airlines Center on Thursday. Thanks to the NHL's scheduling gods, the Dallas Stars and Minnesota Wild are going to be having a late-night Game 1 and Game 4.
That's quite a late night for a division where all five teams that made the playoffs come from the Central time zone. And as always, there is the risk of national viewers missing the first part of the game if the Philadelphia Flyers and Washington Capitals, who have a 7 p.