
Neville: Man Utd-Liverpool huge for Carrick and Slot, neither can afford to lose
Man Utd's clash with Liverpool is vital for managers Carrick and Slot.
The Dallas Stars lost to the Minnesota Wild 5-2 in Game 6, ending their playoff run early. Minnesota players celebrated a significant victory, marking a historic moment for the franchise.
The final score was 5-2 in favor of the Minnesota Wild.
The Stars were eliminated in the first round, which is earlier than in the past three seasons.
Matt Duchene expressed confidence that the Stars' Stanley Cup window remains open, citing the team's young talent and experience.
The victory is considered one of the biggest wins in Minnesota Wild franchise history.

Man Utd's clash with Liverpool is vital for managers Carrick and Slot.
Liverpool aims to sign Aurelien Tchouameni, Jurgen Klopp's dream target.
Bernardo Silva is holding out for Barcelona while Mendes works on the transfer.
Manchester United has a rich history of players excelling on the international stage, with many achieving significant success. The article lists the top ten players from the club with the most international caps.
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**On how he saw the series:** âWe played hard. It felt like every time we made a mistake, it would end up in our net. It wasnât for a lack of trying to score. We just didnât get the bounces that we needed, and they did at times, and at big times. Thatâs a heck of a team. They played really well. And I thought tonight was a pretty even game. They had the first, we had the second, and the third was as toss-up. They just got the last bounce off a skate and in. Kind of sums up the series. Obviously, itâs really tough right now, but all in all, Iâm so grateful to be part of this team and know weâll be back better than ever from this." **On if the Stars' Stanley Cup window is still open:** âAbsolutely. Everyoneâs locked up for a long time. All our young guys are just going to get one more year older and just continue to get more experienced. Us older guys, weâll keep on pushing and keep our level up where it is. We donât plan on going anywhere and tapering off. Sometimes, it takes a few times knocking on the door before you can break through. We have a really good team, really good group, and weâll keep trying to get better. Itâs always tough to swallow. It doesnât matter when you lose when you have a team that you believe can win. You feel like itâs a missed opportunity. Weâll sit in that for a little bit, but weâll pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and keep moving forward.â
**Is another year without the cup frustrating, concerning?** "Itâs frustrating, for sure. I donât know if itâs concerning. I think we have a great team and we have been close. Weâre not going to win every year. Itâs a hard thing to win. We have to learn from this and get better. I think thatâs the only way. Youâre not going to win every year, but obviously you want to get to the finals and get the Cup. But everyone else wants to do that, too. Thereâs great teams out there. Just have to get better." **On missing Roope Hintz:** "Heâs a huge part of our team. In both ends of the ice. Just a reliable guy. Obviously we miss him every game heâs not playing and would have been nice to have him, but thatâs how it goes in hockey, thereâs injuries. Just have to play without him and I think we still had a chance to win. We werenât good enough to do that."
**Was this game similar to the series at large?** "I did see the series kind of in this game. I know lots of you are going to go to five-on-five scoring, but reality is, I think territory-wise in this series, I think it was pretty even to give us the territorial advantage, but we didn't defend well enough. The chances we gave up were a lot higher quality than what we were getting with the territory that we had. So we tried to reset a little bit today with our identity getting back to being a lot more stingy in our efforts. ... Give them credit they did a lot of great things. But if you look at today, there were some things that we gave them..." **On how hard of a loss this is knowing they were a Cup contender:** "The thing is, I would say that they are too, and we are too, and there's probably six to eight of us in the league, and somebody wins and somebody loses so that's a hard pill to swallow, especially for all the work our guys have put in and how much character we have in our team and with the regular season success you had, you expect more. But just goes to show you how hard it is to win."
**On Quinn Hughes' stellar night:** "Yeah I don't want to be too nice with him sitting right next to me. What he's capable of doing as a hockey player is pretty special. I think you see that. Ever since he's come to Minnesota the jump that we made as a team in every aspect of our game has been better with him being on our team. When one player has that much of an impact and leads the way he does and steps up in the biggest moments it's pretty special to have him on the ice and have him have the puck."
**On the difference in the series:** "I just think that sometimes when you coach different teams, itâs such a player-driven team. Like these guys are really close, theyâre really tight. They were willing to learn some lessons from the games. I would say that their commitment, whether it was in meetings, the attention to detail, how they prepared, how they stuck together, theyâre a group that, they play for each other. They donât play with each other. And I think thatâs a big difference. When you have a group of guys thatâs committed to each other the way that they are, it winds up where you get such a committed game."
**On Hughes, challenging Oettinger:** "I was happy that [Hughes] started to shoot off the goal. We were talking about it the whole series. We knew their D was going to try to either block shots or they were standing off to the side. Obviously, Oetter is awesome goalie. Heâs probably going to make a lot of saves that we shoot straight up on him. So especially on bad angle shots, if we could look off the back and try to shoot it off skates or bodies, we knew that would be good." **On what he learned about the playoffs:** "That itâs pretty freaking fun. Itâs completely different from the regular season. Itâs been four years since I was in playoffs. Itâs been so much fun. Itâs so different. I donât know. Itâs different. ... I looked back [at the fans behind the glass] and I saw someone crying back there. Everyone was just so happy. The building was so loud that my ears started hurting. It was amazing. Iâm so happy for our fan base."