{"id":480863,"date":"2026-03-02T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/480863\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:56:24","slug":"zach-metsa-with-a-goal-vs-tampa-bay-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/480863\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Metsa with a Goal vs. Tampa Bay Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Metsa (Buffalo Sabres) with a Goal vs. Tampa Bay Lightning, 02\/28\/2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View More<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>Straight line right to the net, right?<\/p>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Power turns, he shoots, and that one is stopped by Vasilevskiy with traffic in front.<\/p>\n<p>Now Stewart&#8217;s without a stick, it is broken, and here&#8217;s a chance for Metsa.<\/p>\n<p>He scores.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Metsa, the defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>5-0 Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that was a pizza served right up the middle of the ice.<\/p>\n<p>I, I didn&#8217;t get a good look &#8217;cause it&#8217;s on the near side.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it was Cirelli on his backhand inside the blue line.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it was Cirelli.<\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s trying to make a diagonal cross-ice pass, doesn&#8217;t get much on it.<\/p>\n<p>Metsa and the whole team playing really well, really feeling it now.<\/p>\n<p>And you know you&#8217;re feeling it when you&#8217;re making a little pearl and rag move, and then hitting the top cheese right off the bat.<\/p>\n<p>So another dagger from Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>And that is gonna be end the night for Andrei Vasilevskiy, who came into this game with an 18-game point streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Metsa (Buffalo Sabres) with a Goal vs. Tampa Bay Lightning, 02\/28\/2026 View More Video Transcript Straight line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[229,5,189,4,540,92,5168,5167,36854],"class_list":["post-480863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-hockey","tag-lightning","tag-nhl","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning","tag-zach-metsa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116159931014014731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480863","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=480863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}