{"id":632083,"date":"2026-05-09T02:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:44:16","slug":"springfield-pulls-off-biggest-upset-in-calder-cup-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632083\/","title":{"rendered":"Springfield pulls off biggest upset in Calder Cup history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an incredible postseason for the Springfield Thunderbirds, and the magic continued on Thursday as they completed the biggest upset in Calder Cup Playoffs history.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds knocked out the Providence Bruins with a 1-0 overtime win to take the best-of-five series in four games.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins were the\u00a0AHL&#8217;s top team in the regular season with 110 points, which was 38 more than Springfield&#8217;s 72.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forward Dillon Dube scored the game-winner and goaltender Georgi\u00a0Romanov pitched the 37-save shutout in net.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds now advance to the Atlantic Division Finals where they&#8217;ll face the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins. The series will start on Tuesday, May 12 and is best of five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been an incredible postseason for the Springfield Thunderbirds, and the magic continued on Thursday as they completed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-632083","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\/632083","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=632083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}