{"id":621490,"date":"2026-05-03T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:34:13","slug":"sabres-fans-greet-team-at-airport-after-eastern-1st-round-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621490\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres fans greet team at airport after Eastern 1st Round series win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Lindy Ruff stuck his hand outside his window to high-five some fans.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the Sabres have advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs\u00a0since the 2006-07 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres will face the winner of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens series in the Eastern Conference Second Round. Game 7 of the Lightning and Canadiens series will be played at Benchmark International Arena on Sunday (6 p.m. ET; The Spot, HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, SN, TVAS, CBC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Lindy Ruff stuck his hand outside his window to high-five some fans. It is the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-621490","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\/621490","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=621490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}