{"id":598731,"date":"2026-04-12T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:12:08","slug":"senators-clinch-post-season-berth-after-devils-top-red-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598731\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators clinch post-season berth after Devils top Red Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> have clinched a post-season berth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa came into Saturday needing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> to defeat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> in order to make the playoffs for a second straight year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Devils handed the Red Wings a 5-3 loss a couple of hours after the Senators blanked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> 3-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa has won five of its six games in April, including a current four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators have been on a tear since the Olympic break concluded, going 15-5-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa was six points out from the Eastern Conference\u2019s second wild-card spot with 25 regular-season games left entering the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators have clinched a post-season berth. Ottawa came into Saturday needing the New Jersey Devils to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-598731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598731","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=598731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}