{"id":548338,"date":"2026-04-09T00:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548338\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:38:17","slug":"2026-stanley-cup-playoffs-get-to-know-the-favorites-and-what-to-watch-for-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548338\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Get to know the favorites and what to watch for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VACYGVKV35AY7PZHLTWKLTAJCM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The NHL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stanley Cup Playoffs<\/a> are not far away, with the first series set to begin on Saturday, April 18.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AVUKKPTQ2ZC3BJBMBMJ2VGQ6M4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The league is on track for the biggest postseason turnover in history, with the potential for half the field \u2014 eight of the 16 spots \u2014 to be teams that did not qualify a year ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/florida-panthers-playoffs-injuries-b6f83afb475f78b5272c146fee23c4a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There will be a new champion<\/a> and no three-peat after the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/stanley-cup-nhl-playoffs-8a87ac5a24afb90cf482a89b15ad23c0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> were derailed by injuries following three consecutive trips to the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL\u2019s Stanley Cup Playoffs are not far away, with the first series set to begin on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[57487,196,147,5278,62327,5,4,57484,39240,292,57485,106,57486,2960,43,300,104,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-548338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-2026-nhl-schedule","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-dallasstars","12":"tag-hkn-playoff-guide","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-2026-news","16":"tag-nhl-highlights","17":"tag-nhl-hockey","18":"tag-nhl-latest-news","19":"tag-nhl-news","20":"tag-nhl-schedule-2026","21":"tag-nhl-scores","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-stanley-cup-finals","24":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","25":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116371961140608578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548338","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=548338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}