{"id":362,"date":"2019-04-17T13:41:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/?p=362"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:42:04","slug":"columbus-sweep-tampa-in-eastern-conference-opening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/2019\/04\/17\/columbus-sweep-tampa-in-eastern-conference-opening-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Sweep Tampa In Eastern Conference Opening Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Columbus Shock Tampa<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_365\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"wp-image-365 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/04\/Columbus-Blue-Jackets-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Columbus Blue Jackets\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/04\/Columbus-Blue-Jackets-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/04\/Columbus-Blue-Jackets-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/04\/Columbus-Blue-Jackets-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/04\/Columbus-Blue-Jackets-600x339.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/04\/Columbus-Blue-Jackets.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Columbus pulled off what could be the shock of the tournament sweeping Tampa<br \/>Editorial credit: aceshot1 \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning went into this series as strong favourites having won the President&#8217;s Trophy and having beaten Columbus in all their regular-season meetings. However, this is the magic of the playoffs and in last nights game, the Blue Jackets made history twice.\u00a0 Not only did the Blue Jackets record their first-ever playoff series win but they also became the first team ever to sweep the season&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidents%27_Trophy\">Presidents Trophy<\/a> winners!<\/p>\n<p>The Final Scores were:<\/p>\n<p><strong>10th April Columbus Blue Jackets 4\u20133 Tampa Bay Lightning <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>12th April Columbus Blue Jackets 5\u20131 Tampa Bay Lightning <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>14th April Tampa Bay Lightning 1\u20133 Columbus Blue Jackets <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>16th April Tampa Bay Lightning 3\u20137 Columbus Blue Jackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So Columbus can hang their skates up for a few days now while they wait to see who they will face in their first-ever, second-round appearance &#8211; either Toronto or Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus Shock Tampa The Tampa Bay Lightning went into this series as strong favourites having won the President&#8217;s Trophy and having beaten Columbus in all their regular-season meetings. However, this is the magic of the playoffs and in last nights game, the Blue Jackets made history twice.\u00a0 Not only did the Blue Jackets record their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,4,28],"tags":[691,690,692],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columbus-blue-jackets","category-nhl-eastern-conference","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-stanley-cup","tag-tampa-bay-lightening"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}