{"id":612750,"date":"2026-04-18T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612750\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:51:10","slug":"senators-hurricanes-begin-playoff-battle-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612750\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators, Hurricanes begin playoff battle Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Between a car show and an NHL playoff game, action is expected around the Lenovo Centre in North Carolina Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Ottawa Senators open their first-round playoff series against the Carolina Hurricanes at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

After finishing sixth in the Eastern Conference, Ottawa heads to Raleigh, North Carolina for the first two games against the conference\u2019s top regular-season team before the series shifts back to Ottawa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Game 2 is scheduled for Monday night at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Lenovo Center in Raleigh, N.C., a night before the Ottawa Senators play their first game against the Carolina Hurricanes. (Mathieu Deroy\/CBC)<\/p>\n

After a playoff drought stretching back to 2017, Ottawa is embracing a second consecutive post-season run.<\/p>\n

Fans in Ottawa will have to wait until next week to watch the team play live at the Canadian Tire Centre. <\/p>\n

Games 3 and 4 are scheduled for this coming Thursday and Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Senators went 1-2 against the Hurricanes this season, and the teams are expected to be closely matched heading into the series.<\/p>\n

Ottawa players and staff travelled Friday afternoon and are expecting to have some Sens fans in the crowd. <\/p>\n

Those still in Ottawa can catch the game for free<\/a> outside the Canadian Tire Centre. Parking will also be free during road games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-612750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612750","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=612750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}