{"id":165077,"date":"2026-04-14T02:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165077\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:58:07","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-to-take-on-philadelphia-flyers-in-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165077\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins to take on Philadelphia Flyers in playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pittsburgh Penguins now know who they will take on in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. VIDEO: Penguins clinch playoff spot for first time since 2022 In a post on social media, the Penguins will take on the Philadelphia Flyers, who secured their spot after beating the Hurricanes Monday night. Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh team secured its spot in the playoffs for the first time in four years. They beat the Devils 5-2 Thursday night in Newark, New Jersey. The NHL will announce the playoff schedule once all teams and dates have been finalized.Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins now know who they will take on in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: Penguins clinch playoff spot for first time since 2022 <\/p>\n<p>In a post on social media, the Penguins will take on the Philadelphia Flyers, who secured their spot after beating the Hurricanes Monday night. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can\u2019t write it any better than this.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins will face the Flyers in the first round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Reuq6WhZb8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Reuq6WhZb8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 x &#8211; Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/2043869694487117833?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/pittsburgh-penguins-clinch-playoff-spot\/70978386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">secured its spot in the playoffs<\/a> for the first time in four years. They beat the Devils 5-2 Thursday night in Newark, New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p>The NHL will announce the playoff schedule once all teams and dates have been finalized.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more news in your area | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins now know who they will take on in the first round of the Stanley Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19779,5848,25731,2443,915,18388,3834,4845,73,75,74,1067,18367,37637,8723,33473,726,74408,3690,420,78],"class_list":{"0":"post-165077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-first-round","9":"tag-first-time","10":"tag-flyers","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-new-jersey","13":"tag-newark","14":"tag-penguin","15":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","16":"tag-pittsburgh","17":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","18":"tag-pittsburgh-news","19":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","20":"tag-pittsburgh-team","21":"tag-playoff-spot","22":"tag-ppg-paints-arena","23":"tag-social-medium","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-stanley-cup-playoff","26":"tag-thursday-night","27":"tag-video","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}