{"id":541819,"date":"2026-04-05T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:42:49","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-beat-boston-bruins-hours-after-securing-a-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541819\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning beat Boston Bruins hours after securing a playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Darren Raddysh<\/a> broke a tie with 5:31 left and Tampa Bay beat the Boston Bruins<\/a> 3-1 on Saturday night, hours after the Lightning secured a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

The Atlantic Division-leading Lightning wrapped up the Eastern Conference postseason position with Detroit\u2019s 4-1 loss at the New York Rangers<\/a> in the afternoon. Boston holds the first wild-card spot in the East. <\/p>\n

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<\/a> from the right side on a break.<\/p>\n

Nikita Kucherov<\/a> added his 42nd goal of the season into an empty net, and Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> made 21 saves to help the Lightning finish a seven-game homestand 5-1-1.<\/p>\n

Casey Mittelstadt<\/a> 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

Up next<\/p>\n

Bruins: At Philadelphia on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Lightning: At Buffalo on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Darren Raddysh broke a tie with 5:31 left and Tampa Bay beat the Boston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5105],"tags":[5,189,4,43,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-541819","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-sports","12":"tag-tampa-bay","13":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","14":"tag-tampabay","15":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116351452102034883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541819","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=541819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}