{"id":542980,"date":"2026-04-06T00:49:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542980\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:49:39","slug":"canadiens-clinch-playoff-spot-for-second-consecutive-season-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542980\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens clinch playoff spot for second consecutive season | 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>Montreal went into its game Sunday night against New Jersey second in the Atlantic Division. The Canadiens have won eight straight, winning the last five on the road.<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.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":542981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,61976,5,264,21,5147,4,292,43,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-542980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-canadiens-clinch-nhl-stanley-cup-playoffs","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-montreal","12":"tag-montreal-canadiens","13":"tag-montrealcanadiens","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116355017241909482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542980","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=542980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}