{"id":541498,"date":"2026-04-05T04:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:43:27","slug":"sabres-clinch-spot-in-stanley-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541498\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres clinch spot in Stanley Cup Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drought is over.<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Sabres officially clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Saturday as a result of the Detroit Red Wings\u2019 loss to the New York Rangers. It is the Sabres\u2019 first playoff appearance since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Sabres Season Ticket Members will receive priority access to purchase playoff tickets for Round 1 home games. Following Season Ticket Member priority access, a limited number of tickets are expected to be made available to the General Public. Information on the timing of public on-sale will be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can guarantee access to playoff tickets by purchasing a 2026-27 full-season membership. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sabres\/tickets\/season-membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sabres.com\/Memberships<\/a> to secure your seats today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The drought is over. The Buffalo Sabres officially clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541499,"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-541498","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\/116350275378896433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541498","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=541498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}