{"id":541515,"date":"2026-04-05T04:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:55:22","slug":"henderson-silver-knights-clinch-playoff-spot-with-5-4-win-over-tucson-roadrunners-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541515\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson Silver Knights clinch playoff spot with 5-4 win over Tucson Roadrunners | Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in four years, the Henderson Silver Knights will be playing playoff hockey.<\/p>\n<p>The Silver Knights scored twice in the final 1:26 to defeat the Tucson Roadrunners 5-4 at Lee\u2019s Family Forum on Saturday to punch their ticket to the Calder Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights needed a win in regulation to clinch.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman Dylan Coghlan tied it with 1:26 remaining with goaltender Carl Lindbom pulled, and winger Braeden Bowman\u2019s second goal with 15 seconds left and gave the Knights (35-20-11) their second straight last-minute victory.<\/p>\n<p>They beat Tucson 4-3 on Friday thanks to a goal from defenseman Viliam Kmec with less than 30 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights are 11-1-1 in their last 13 games and have jumped to fourth place in the Pacific Division with six games to go.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Danny Webster at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/goldenknights\/silver-knights-clinch-playoff-berth-for-first-time-since-2022-3733827\/mailto:dwebster@reviewjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dwebster@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/@DannyWebster21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@DannyWebster21<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in four years, the Henderson Silver Knights will be playing playoff hockey. The Silver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-541515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-vegas","13":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","14":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116350322604802881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541515","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=541515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}