{"id":549554,"date":"2026-04-10T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:06:30","slug":"2026-nhl-playoff-picture-standings-and-breaking-down-current-postseason-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549554\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NHL Playoff Picture, Standings and Breaking Down Current Postseason Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The NHL regular season is in its final days, with the playoffs slated to kick off on Saturday, April 18, and several teams have clinched their place in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Eastern Conference teams the Tampa Bay Lightning, Buffalo Sabres, Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes, and Pittsburgh Penguins are definitely in while the Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild, and Utah Mammoth have all clinched in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Find out where they sit, which teams still have a shot at a Wild Card, and which team may be the most dangerous entering the NHL Playoffs with this preview of the postseason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL regular season is in its final days, with the playoffs slated to kick off on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[5,4,60,14,104,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-549554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-playoffs","12":"tag-stanley-cup","13":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","14":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116380564422362038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549554","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=549554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}