{"id":594623,"date":"2026-04-20T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:32:09","slug":"amerks-claim-last-playoff-spot-in-north-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594623\/","title":{"rendered":"Amerks claim last playoff spot in North | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/clinch26-roc.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Rochester Americans clinched a berth in the 2026 Calder Cup Playoffs on the final day of the regular season, rallying in the third period to earn the single point they needed before falling 5-4 in overtime at Hershey on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Amerks, celebrating their 70th anniversary this season, are heading to the postseason for the 51st time. They have reached the Calder Cup Finals on 16 occasions, winning six championships.<\/p>\n<p>Rochester joins Laval, Syracuse, Cleveland and Toronto in making up the five-team playoff field in the North Division. The top three clubs will get byes into the division semifinals, while the fourth- and fifth-place finishers will meet in a best-of-three first-round series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flosports.link\/4cC9sC3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96285 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ahltv26_primer-1024x85.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"53\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rochester Americans clinched a berth in the 2026 Calder Cup Playoffs on the final day of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-594623","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\/594623","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=594623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}