{"id":266874,"date":"2026-04-14T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:28:10","slug":"ducks-clinch-playoff-spot-for-first-time-since-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266874\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks clinch playoff spot for first time since 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"anaheim-ducks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> are going to give their fans a long-awaited taste of playoff hockey.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks&#8217; 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators on Monday locked up the Ducks&#8217; first playoff berth since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks are third in the Pacific Division with two games left and still could get as high as first over their final two games.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim has made a big jump this year after hiring veteran coach Joel Quenneville in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Cutter Gauthier has enjoyed a breakout season with 40 goals, doubling his output from his rookie campaign last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks are going to give their fans a long-awaited taste of playoff hockey. The San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-266874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}