{"id":541629,"date":"2026-04-05T06:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541629\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:10:34","slug":"lightning-beat-the-bruins-3-1-hours-after-securing-a-playoff-spot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541629\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning beat the Bruins 3-1 hours after securing a playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a-term a-term--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/tag\/boston-bruins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston Bruins\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tJeremy Swayman stopped 20 shots as Boston lost its second straight on a four-game trip.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bruins_Lightning_Hockey__7_54-69d1afc77a644-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-16:9 size-16:9 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n\tBoston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman (1) makes a pad save on a shot by Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Corey Perry (10) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo\/Chris O&#8217;Meara) AP\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"m-article-header__author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Associated Press\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApril 4, 2026\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>1 minute to read<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Darren Raddysh broke a tie with 5:31 left and Tampa Bay beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 on Saturday night, hours after the Lightning secured a playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Division-leading Lightning wrapped up the Eastern Conference postseason position with Detroit\u2019s 4-1 loss at the New York Rangers in the afternoon. Boston holds the first wild-card spot in the East.<\/p>\n<p>After assisting on defenseman Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous\u2019 tying goal at 2:13 of the third, Raddysh put the Lightning ahead with a sharp-angle shot past goalie Jeremy Swayman from the right side on a break.<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Kucherov added his 42nd goal of the season into an empty net, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 21 saves to help the Lightning finish a seven-game homestand 5-1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Mittelstadt scored for Boston in the second. Swayman stopped 20 shots as the Bruins lost their second straight on a four-game trip. They lost 2-1 at Florida on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bruins: At Philadelphia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning: At Buffalo on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet the latest Boston sports news<\/p>\n<p class=\"m-generic-cta__subtitle\">Receive updates on your favorite Boston teams, straight from our newsroom to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Jeremy Swayman stopped 20 shots as Boston lost its second straight on a four-game trip. Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5105],"tags":[5,189,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-541629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-lightning","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116350617951722475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541629","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=541629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}