{"id":430693,"date":"2023-03-23T12:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430693"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T16:07:44","slug":"boston-can-clinch-on-thursday-atlantic-division","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-can-clinch-on-thursday-atlantic-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston can clinch on Thursday Atlantic Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leading team in NHL can officially clinch the number 1 spot in Atlantic Division with a victory against Montreal Canadiens on Thursday. However, one more thing must happen for this to become a reality. Florida Panthers needs to win in regulation against Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Win No. 55 on the season could allow the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NHLBruins<\/a> to secure the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Division tonight.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLStats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NHLStats<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S4CYBGOLNA\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/S4CYBGOLNA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FvmBwoHkYt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FvmBwoHkYt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PR_NHL\/status\/1638894734956716035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Boston won the division last year and left their divisional rivals, Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning, facing each other.<\/p>\n<p>Bruins are also in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place in the Eastern Conference with 13 points more than Carolina Hurricanes. Boston&#8217;s opponent would be Pittsburgh Penguins if the playoffs started on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina can be sure for the playoffs on Thursday if they beat New York Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leading team in NHL can officially clinch the number 1 spot in Atlantic Division with a victory against Montreal Canadiens on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":415774,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17259,16742,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17914,18391,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Bruins' fantastic season can secure them the top spot in the Atlantic Division as soon as Thursday with a victory. ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430693"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430693"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}