{"id":550893,"date":"2026-04-12T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550893\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:00:45","slug":"oilers-clinch-post-season-berth-following-jets-loss-to-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550893\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers clinch post-season berth following Jets&#8217; loss to Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers are back in the post-season after back-to-back Stanley Cup final appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton needed a hand by way of any result besides a Winnipeg regulation win, with the Jets losing 7-1 to the Philadelphia Flyers Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers lost 1-0 to the Los Angeles Kings earlier in the day and fell one point back of Vegas for the Pacific Division lead after the Golden Knights beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in overtime. The idle Anaheim Ducks remain one point back of Edmonton with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Winnipeg is near elimination, being five points behind the Kings for the Western Conference&#8217;s second wild-card spot with just three games left.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton fell to the Florida Panthers the previous two seasons in the Stanley Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, however, Florida has already been eliminated from post-season contention.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers are back in the post-season after back-to-back Stanley Cup final appearances. Edmonton needed a hand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[233,144,198,146,5300,57,149,5,145,4,24,2219,56,4522,4302,6739,2222,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-550893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-colorado-avalanche","10":"tag-edmonton","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers","12":"tag-edmontonoilers","13":"tag-florida-panthers","14":"tag-golden-knights","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-los-angeles-kings","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-oilers","19":"tag-pacific-division","20":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","21":"tag-post-season","22":"tag-stanley-cup-final","23":"tag-the-canadian-press","24":"tag-the-jets","25":"tag-winnipeg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116390214773733642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550893","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=550893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}