{"id":629093,"date":"2026-04-26T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/629093\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:00:11","slug":"macleod-watches-as-ottawa-shuts-the-door-on-toronto-to-clinch-fourth-and-final-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/629093\/","title":{"rendered":"MacLeod Watches As Ottawa Shuts The Door On Toronto To Clinch Fourth And Final Playoff Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all came down to this: one final game to decide the last remaining spot in the pursuit of the Walter Cup. For the Ottawa Charge, they needed one single point to punch their ticket, while the Toronto Sceptres required a regulation win. And on this sunny afternoon at a sold-out TD Place, and on Fan Appreciation day no less, the Ottawa Charge did just that, as they shut out the Sceptres by a final of 3-0. The win is the team\u2019s second consecutive against the Sceptres, both of which were shutouts, and the second year in a row in which they eliminated Toronto on the final day of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It all came down to this: one final game to decide the last remaining spot in the pursuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-629093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629093","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=629093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}