{"id":856407,"date":"2026-04-06T05:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/856407\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:43:43","slug":"nhl-team-hands-the-new-york-jets-a-tough-blow-heading-into-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/856407\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL team hands the New York Jets a tough blow heading into 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 2026, 7:20 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" data-autotag=\"61e70eee-950b-4335-a373-675b010563dc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Jets<\/a> stand alone with their unfortunate title now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It is well known the Jets have the longest playoff drought in the NFL. In terms of professional North American sports, Gang Green had long shared that honor with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/buffalo-sabres\/4955\/\" data-autotag=\"83676641-8ca4-4696-a6f3-f911034295f9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> of the NHL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And that is no longer the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Sabres clinched a playoff berth Saturday to snap their 14-year postseason drought &#8212; the longest in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Heading into 15 years, the Jets now stand alone.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Now it&#8217;s on the Jets to join the Sabres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 5, 2026, 7:20 a.m. ET The New York Jets stand alone with their unfortunate title now. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[95878,7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,97197,97198,95882,116908,98528,95896,96747,95888,95897,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-856407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkjets","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnfljets","17":"tag-sstsnjets","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagbuffalo-sabres","20":"tag-taghockey","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnew-york-jets","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116356173349019629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}