{"id":578713,"date":"2026-04-11T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:48:09","slug":"washington-capitals-officially-eliminated-from-eastern-conferences-second-wild-card-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578713\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals officially eliminated from Eastern Conference\u2019s second wild card spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/file-brandon-duhaime-closeup-warmups-aland-7823.jpg\" class=\"above-the-fold wp-post-image\" alt=\"Brandon Duhaime\"  decoding=\"async\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals\u2019 only path to the playoffs now is through the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals (89 standings points) were officially eliminated from the Eastern Conference\u2019s second wild card spot after the Ottawa Senators (96) defeated the New York Islanders 3-0, getting goals from Ridly Grieg, Jake Sanderson, and Michael Amadio.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The game featured a fight off the opening faceoff as Brady Tkachuk threw hands with Anders Lee. Tkachuk later left the game early after being struck in the jaw by a puck in the neutral zone as he came on the ice for a shift change.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being eliminated from the eighth seed, the Capitals actually saw their playoff odds improve from 7.2 percent to 11.6 percent with the Islanders\u2019 loss, per MoneyPuck.<\/p>\n<p>The race for the Metropolitan Division\u2019s third and final playoff spot is down to the Philadelphia Flyers (92), New York Islanders (91), Columbus Blue Jackets (90, and the Capitals (89).<\/p>\n<p>Standings as of 4:45 pm<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-589745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eastern-conference-standings-041126.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Conference standings as of April 11, 2026\" width=\"1342\" height=\"1335\"  \/>Screenshot: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/standings\/2026-04-11\/wildcard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL.com\/standings<\/a><br \/>\nGames remaining for the Metro teams<\/p>\n<p>Flyers: @WPG, CAR, MTL<br \/>Islanders: MTL, CAR<br \/>Blue Jackets: @MTL, BOS, WSH<br \/>Capitals: @PIT, PIT, @CBJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB The Washington Capitals\u2019 only path to the playoffs now is through the Metropolitan Division. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-578713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}