{"id":542915,"date":"2026-04-05T23:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542915\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:54:21","slug":"canadiens-clinch-playoff-spot-for-second-consecutive-season-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542915\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens clinch playoff spot for second consecutive season | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 The Montreal Canadiens wrapped up their second straight playoff spot Sunday when Detroit fell 5-4 to Minnesota, making them the first Canadian team to secure a postseason berth.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Montreal took the final spot in the Eastern Conference before falling to Washington in five games in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>kAm|@?EC62= H6?E :?E@ :ED 82&gt;6 $F?52J ?:89E 282:?DE }6H y6CD6J D64@?5 \ud83d\ude15 E96 pE=2?E:4 s:G:D:@?] %96 r2?25:6?D 92G6 H@? 6:89E DEC2:89E[ H:??:?8 E96 =2DE 7:G6 @? E96 C@25]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmp! }w{i k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^?9=Qm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^?9=k^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 The Montreal Canadiens wrapped up their second straight playoff spot Sunday when Detroit fell 5-4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,1063,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-montrealcanadiens","13":"tag-national_sports","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116354800861436166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542915","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=542915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}