{"id":434611,"date":"2023-04-29T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434611"},"modified":"2023-04-29T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:50:04","slug":"tavaress-ot-goal-and-maple-leafs-clinch-the-2nd-round-in-the-east","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tavaress-ot-goal-and-maple-leafs-clinch-the-2nd-round-in-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Tavares&#8217;s OT goal and Maple Leafs clinch the 2nd round in the East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Tavares notched the winning goal after less than 5 minutes in the overtime to help <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> 2-1 in Game 6 after OT at Amalie Arena in Tampa, FL, and the Canadian club will play in the 2<sup>nd <\/sup>round of the playoffs in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NOT. DONE. YET.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LGCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LGCanada<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeafsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LeafsForever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wtXVM7ZpCR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wtXVM7ZpCR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1652495826508214272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian franchise won all 3 of the matches in Tampa after overtime and ended the 11-match losing streak in elimination clashes. As a result, they made it to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the playoffs for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since 2004, as Maple Leafs were eliminated in their 1<sup>st<\/sup> matchup in the postseason in the last 6 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GAME WINNER!<br \/>\nSERIES WINNER!<\/p>\n<p>LET\u2019S. GO. LEAFS. NATION!!!!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dkttq8eBpW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dkttq8eBpW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1652494447450664961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lightning elimination means that the Floridian team will miss the Stanley Cup Final, as they reached it in the last 3 seasons. Tampa Bay won the championship in 2020 and 21 but lost the final last year to <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/colorado-avalanche\/\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Auston Matthews notched the other goal for Toronto as the only goal for the Bolts had Steven Stamkos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> will face the winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/boston-bruins\/\">Boston Bruins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/florida-panthers\/\">Florida Panthers<\/a> that will play Game 7 tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zKA8l02Fe8E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tavares notched the winning goal after less than 5 minutes in the overtime to help Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Tampa Bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":434612,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,17164,16734],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18408,17890,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Toronto eliminated Tampa Bay 4-2 in the 1st round playoff matchup in the East.","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\/434611"}],"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=434611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434611"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434611"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}