{"id":686826,"date":"2026-05-22T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686826\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:09:10","slug":"2026-nhl-eastern-conference-final-4-takeaways-from-hurricanes-canadiens-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686826\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NHL Eastern Conference Final: 4 Takeaways From Hurricanes-Canadiens Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Well, well, well. The young, spunky team that had played 14 grueling games leading up to the Eastern Conference Final handily outlasted the side that seemed to coast through just eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The speedy Montreal Canadiens started exactly as they needed to and never looked back as a 4-1 first period turned into a 6-2 Game 1 win in the ECF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This is the Carolina Hurricanes&#8217; first loss of the playoffs. Does it mean they are fated to the same curse that has held them to 1-17 in their latest Eastern Conference Final appearances, or were they simply due for a loss as they came into this Final an undefeated 8-0? <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Here are the biggest takeaways from a wild Game 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, well, well. The young, spunky team that had played 14 grueling games leading up to the Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-686826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686826","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=686826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}