{"id":585229,"date":"2026-04-15T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:59:08","slug":"canes-to-face-senators-in-round-1-of-2026-stanley-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585229\/","title":{"rendered":"Canes To Face Senators In Round 1 Of 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; The 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs kick off this weekend, and the Carolina Hurricanes now know their first-round foe.<\/p>\n<p>With the top seed in the Eastern Conference locked down, the Canes will take on the second Wild Card slot, claimed by the Ottawa Senators. Carolina went 2-1-0 against the Senators this season, scoring three or more goals in each contest.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first-ever playoff meeting between the Hurricanes and Senators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; The 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs kick off this weekend, and the Carolina Hurricanes now know&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-585229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585229","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=585229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}