{"id":585577,"date":"2026-04-04T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585577\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:24:12","slug":"lightning-clinch-stanley-cup-playoff-berth-for-9th-straight-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585577\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning clinch Stanley Cup Playoff berth for 9th straight season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/darren-raddysh-8478178\" title=\"Darren Raddysh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Raddysh<\/a>\u00a0has set NHL career highs with 20 goals, 46 assists and 66 points in 68 games and ranks seventh in the NHL in points at the position. Defenseman and captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/victor-hedman-8475167\" title=\"Victor Hedman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Hedman<\/a>\u00a0has 17 points (one goal, 16 assists) but has been limited to 33 games this season due to injury. He is currently away from the team for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andrei-vasilevskiy-8476883\" title=\"Andrei Vasilevskiy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a>\u00a0leads the League in wins (36) and has a 2.34 goals-against average and .912 save percentage in 53 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning are averaging the second-most goals per game in the League (3.60), trailing only the Avalanche (3.78), and are third in goals-against per game (2.77).<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay has the longest winning streak in the NHL this season at 11 games from Dec. 20-Jan. 13, part of a stretch in which it went 20-1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenseman Darren Raddysh\u00a0has set NHL career highs with 20 goals, 46 assists and 66 points in 68 games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-585577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}