{"id":539968,"date":"2026-04-04T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:28:39","slug":"latest-2026-nhl-playoff-standings-and-predicting-seedings-for-east-west-brackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539968\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest 2026 NHL Playoff Standings and Predicting Seedings for East, West Brackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The NHL&#8217;s two wild-card races should provide drama until the final day of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Over the last week, the Western Conference wild-card race tightened up with runs by the Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks combined with the Nashville Predators&#8217; losing streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Eastern Conference wild-card race has been congested for a few weeks now. A majority of the wild-card contenders lost on Tuesday to keep the standings close. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A handful of games on Thursday and Saturday will flip the standings in other directions. There&#8217;s no clear favorite on either side to land the No. 2 wild-card positions in either conference, and that will at least make the next two weeks fascinating to watch for fans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL&#8217;s two wild-card races should provide drama until the final day of the regular season. Over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[5,4,60,14,104,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-539968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-playoffs","12":"tag-stanley-cup","13":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","14":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116345499075847382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539968","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=539968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}