{"id":590345,"date":"2026-04-17T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590345\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:49:07","slug":"the-sweeties-and-enemies-of-the-nhl-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590345\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sweeties And Enemies Of The NHL Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defector is proud of its <a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/formula-one-drivers-sorted-into-sweeties-and-enemies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sweeties and enemies binary<\/a>. In athletic competition, there are sweeties, who cause a feeling of butterflies in tummies, and there are enemies, who are shitheels. Nobody denies this.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s NHL playoff bracket looks a little weird. Some teams seem like they&#8217;ve innocently stumbled into a place they don&#8217;t belong. Other franchises are truly despicable embarrassments to ice. To make sense of the first round, I have divided every series into a sweetie and an enemy. Here they are, without further comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-xl-font-size\">NHL Playoff Sweeties<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<br \/>Minnesota Wild<br \/>Utah Mammoth<br \/>Edmonton Oilers<br \/>Buffalo Sabres<br \/>Montreal Canadiens<br \/>Carolina Hurricanes<br \/>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-xl-font-size\">NHL Playoff Enemies<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Kings<br \/>Dallas Stars<br \/>Vegas Golden Knights<br \/>Anaheim Ducks<br \/>Boston Bruins<br \/>Tampa Bay Lightning<br \/>Ottawa Senators<br \/>Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n<p>Recommended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defector is proud of its sweeties and enemies binary. In athletic competition, there are sweeties, who cause a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-590345","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\/590345","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=590345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}