{"id":173530,"date":"2025-09-27T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:58:48","slug":"official-hamilton-tiger-cats-clinch-cfl-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173530\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Hamilton Tiger-Cats clinch CFL playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TicatsGen-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Photo courtesy: Hamilton Tiger-Cats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"557\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TicatsGen-696x557.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"TicatsGen, Kenny Lawler\"\/><\/a>Photo courtesy: Hamilton Tiger-Cats<\/p>\n<p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have officially clinched a spot in this year\u2019s playoffs after the Toronto Argonauts lost to the B.C. Lions in Vancouver on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Tabbies missed the postseason last year after finishing 7-11, placing last in the East Division. The team can finish no lower than second place in the standings this year with the Montreal Alouettes two points behind them at 8-7.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has also clinched its first home playoff game since 2021, which is also the last time the club reached the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cats (9-5) will visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (7-7) at Princess Auto Stadium on Saturday afternoon with kickoff slated for 3:00 p.m. EDT. <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2025\/09\/21\/walk-off-win-over-elks-inches-hamilton-tiger-cats-closer-to-home-playoff-game-nine-other-thoughts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Tiger-Cats defeated the Edmonton Elks last week with a walk-off field goal<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2025\/09\/20\/winnipeg-blue-bombers-complete-three-passes-beat-redblacks-anyway-10-other-thoughts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Blue Bombers bested the Ottawa Redblacks despite completing only three passes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast in Winnipeg calls for a high of 22 degrees with sunny conditions. The game will be broadcast on TSN and CTV in Canada and CFL+ internationally. Radio listeners can tune-in on the Ticats Audio Network and CJOB 680 in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: Hamilton Tiger-Cats The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have officially clinched a spot in this year\u2019s playoffs after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-173530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}