{"id":604971,"date":"2026-04-15T04:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:54:07","slug":"nhls-eastern-conference-first-round-playoff-matchups-finalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604971\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL&#8217;s Eastern Conference first-round playoff matchups finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days remain in the NHL&#8217;s regular season, but we already know which teams will battle it out in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"boston-bruins\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/boston-bruins\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Boston Bruins<\/a>&#8216; 4-0 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday locked in the four series.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes (Metro 1) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"ottawa-senators\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> (WC 2)<br \/>Pittsburgh Penguins (Metro 2) vs. Philadelphia Flyers (Metro 3)<br \/>Buffalo Sabres (Atlantic 1) vs. Boston Bruins (WC 1)<br \/>Tampa Bay Lightning (Atlantic 2) vs. Montreal Canadiens (Atlantic 3) <\/p>\n<p>The Bruins&#8217; win set up a battle with the Atlantic Division-winning Buffalo Sabres, while forcing the Senators into a confrontation against the Metropolitan Division-winning Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa and Carolina have never met in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres last played the Bruins in the playoffs in 2010, with Boston winning a six-game Eastern Conference quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>The playoffs start Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two days remain in the NHL&#8217;s regular season, but we already know which teams will battle it out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-604971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604971","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=604971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}