Here are the Stanley Cup Playoff clinching scenarios for April 7:<\/p>\n
EASTERN CONFERENCE<\/p>\n
The Carolina Hurricanes will clinch the Metropolitan Division title:<\/p>\n
If they get at least one point vs. the Boston Bruins (7 p.m. ET; FDSNSO, NESN, SNP)<\/p>\n
WESTERN CONFERENCE<\/p>\n
The Colorado Avalanche will clinch the Central Division and Western Conference titles, and a C2-C3 DAL-MIN playoff matchup (seeds TBD) will be locked in:<\/p>\n
If they defeat the St. Louis Blues in any fashion (8 p.m. ET; FDSNMW, ALT)<\/p>\n
OR<\/p>\n
If they get one point vs. the Blues AND the Calgary Flames defeat the Dallas Stars in any fashion (8 p.m. ET; Victory+, SNW)<\/p>\n
OR<\/p>\n
If the Flames defeat the Stars in regulation<\/p>\n
The Avalanche will clinch the Presidents’ Trophy:<\/p>\n
If they defeat the Blues in regulation AND the Bruins defeat the Hurricanes in regulation<\/p>\n
OR<\/p>\n
If they defeat the Blues in overtime or shootout AND the Bruins defeat the Hurricanes in regulation AND with any result in the Lightning-Senators game (7 p.m. ET; RDS2, TSN5, The Spot) other than a Lightning regulation win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the Stanley Cup Playoff clinching scenarios for April 7: EASTERN CONFERENCE The Carolina Hurricanes will clinch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-591674","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\/591674","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=591674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}