{"id":186271,"date":"2026-04-05T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:46:10","slug":"nhl-team-hands-the-new-york-jets-a-tough-blow-heading-into-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186271\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL team hands the New York Jets a tough blow heading into 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Jets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Jets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Jets<\/a> stand alone with their unfortunate title now.<\/p>\n<p>It is well known the Jets have the longest playoff drought in the NFL. In terms of professional North American sports, Gang Green had long shared that honor with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/buffalo-sabres\/4955\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Sabres;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Buffalo Sabres&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> of the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And that is no longer the case.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres clinched a playoff berth Saturday to snap their 14-year postseason drought &#8212; the longest in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into 15 years, the Jets now stand alone.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s on the Jets to join the Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Jets Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/jetswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jets\/2026\/04\/05\/nhl-team-new-york-jets-buffalo-sabres-longest-active-playoff-drought\/89474784007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NHL team hands the New York Jets a tough blow heading into 2026;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NHL team hands the New York Jets a tough blow heading into 2026&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NHL team hands the New York Jets a tough blow heading into 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Jets stand alone with their unfortunate title now. It is well known the Jets have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3297,9,11,430,10,539,74748,74747,3329],"class_list":{"0":"post-186271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-buffalo-sabres","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-history","15":"tag-playoff-berth","16":"tag-the-jets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}