{"id":627354,"date":"2026-04-25T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627354\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:35:09","slug":"halifax-thunderbirds-eliminate-vancouver-warriors-from-nll-playoffs-with-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627354\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax Thunderbirds eliminate Vancouver Warriors from NLL playoffs with road win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 The Vancouver Warriors were ahead 7-1 at halftime and looked to have their National Lacrosse League single-elimination playoff game under control on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But the eighth-seeded Halifax Thunderbirds scored nine unanswered goals in the second half and eliminated the regular-season champions from the post-season picture with a 10-7 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jason Knox had four goals and two assists, Clarke Petterson had two goals and three assists, and the Thunderbirds punched their ticket to the best-of-three semifinals against the winner of Saturday\u2019s showdown between the Georgia Swarm and Buffalo Bandits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mike Robinson scored twice, Cody Jamieson and Jake Withers each had a goal and two assists, and Casey Wilson, Brendan Bomberry and Ryan Terefenko each chipped in with two assists for the Thunderbirds. Netminder Warren Hill made 36 saves for the winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Keegan Bal led Vancouver with three goals and three assists, Marcus Klarich had two goals, Jesse King had a goal and four assists, and Curtis Dickson had a goal and an assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Christian Del Bianco made 61 saves for Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The Vancouver Warriors were ahead 7-1 at halftime and looked to have their National Lacrosse League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,82,55],"class_list":["post-627354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627354","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=627354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}