{"id":432507,"date":"2023-04-01T23:31:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432507"},"modified":"2023-04-01T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T03:08:00","slug":"lightning-trash-islanders-5-0-secure-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lightning-trash-islanders-5-0-secure-playoff-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning trash Islanders 5-0, secure playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 38 shots to secure the shutout, Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos notched within 2 minutes in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> period, and the Lightning secured their 6<sup>th<\/sup> straight postseason berth after beating <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/new-york-islanders\/\">New York Islanders<\/a> 5-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Lightning have CLINCHED \u26a1<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay will face Toronto in the First Round for a second straight year \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NMxdhy0W9w\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NMxdhy0W9w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1642340557937602560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> know their opponent in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round, and it is <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay reached the Stanley Cup in their last 3 postseasons and clinched the title in 2020 and 2021, and they will play again in the playoffs as this is the 9<sup>th<\/sup> time for their head coach Jon Cooper in his 10 full seasons with the franchise from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Sergachev, Jeannot, and Point notched the other goals for the impressive victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/new-york-islanders\/\">New York Islanders<\/a> will make a trip to play against <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/carolina-hurricanes\/\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, while Tampa Bay will visit the Big Apple to face New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOW-K-YjDpY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 38 shots to secure the shutout, Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos notched within 2 minutes in the 2nd period, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432508,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17066,17844,17164],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18431,18408,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Tampa Bay destroyed NY Islanders 5-0 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, FL.","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\/432507"}],"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=432507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432507"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432507"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}