{"id":546346,"date":"2026-04-07T23:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546346\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:08:06","slug":"lightning-remain-the-constant-as-atlantic-division-hierarchy-shifts-with-rise-of-sabres-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546346\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning remain the constant as Atlantic Division hierarchy shifts with rise of Sabres, Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"374BFTXFIVFNNKB4NXYHMN6PZA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 There\u2019s a neck-and-neck, three-way race for the Atlantic Division title, and the only person seemingly not buying into the buzz might be Tampa Bay coach <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/jon-cooper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Cooper<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FANF2YDIERFZHKDTPNV24SBGPQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Emerging from <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tampa-bay-lightning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Lightning<\/a> locker room before playing at Buffalo on Monday night, Cooper shook his head in mock dismay upon seeing the larger than usual crowd of reporters awaiting his arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 There\u2019s a neck-and-neck, three-way race for the Atlantic Division title, and the only person seemingly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[57487,62170,5,189,4,57484,39240,292,57485,106,57486,2960,43,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-546346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-2026-nhl-schedule","9":"tag-hkn-atlantic-division-race","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-lightning","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-2026-news","14":"tag-nhl-highlights","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-nhl-latest-news","17":"tag-nhl-news","18":"tag-nhl-schedule-2026","19":"tag-nhl-scores","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tampa-bay","22":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","23":"tag-tampabay","24":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116365945604959005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546346","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=546346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}