{"id":431859,"date":"2023-03-25T19:17:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=431859"},"modified":"2023-03-25T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:40:19","slug":"boston-beat-2-1-tampa-bay-clinch-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-beat-2-1-tampa-bay-clinch-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston beat 2-1 Tampa Bay, clinch Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the victories this season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/boston-bruins\/\">Boston Bruins<\/a> captain didn&#8217;t even realize that it became a fact that they clinched the Atlantic division.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Presenting your Atlantic Division champions! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Su5c3KD7wZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Su5c3KD7wZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 y &#8211; Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/1639713812151521280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Garnet Hathaway scored the winning goal in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> period, and with their 6<sup>th<\/sup> win in a row, they won the Atlantic Division but didn&#8217;t even celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Boston won for the 56<sup>th<\/sup> time this season and is one victory away from the franchise&#8217;s best record in 1970-71. However, they can also try to finish with the best record the NHL ever saw, as they have 10 more games to do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/detroit-red-wings\/\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> both had a season with 62 wins in NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Bergeron notched the other goal for Boston as goaltender Linus Ullmark stopped 26 shots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last match, you mean?&#8221; captain Bergeron said when asked about clinching the division. Informed it had happened Saturday, he said: &#8220;Oh really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Victor Hedman scored the only goal for the Tampa Bay team, which recorded 4<sup>th<\/sup> straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay will make a trip to play against <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/carolina-hurricanes\/\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> on Tuesday, while Boston will also visit the same team on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FCO5zEFIteY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the victories this season, the Boston Bruins captain didn&#8217;t even realize that it became a fact that they clinched the Atlantic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":431860,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17259,17844,17164],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[17914,18408,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The best team in NHL won their division, but their captain Patrice Bergeron didn\u2019t even know it.","video":["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\/431859"}],"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=431859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/431859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431859"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=431859"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=431859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}