{"id":268444,"date":"2016-05-26T23:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=268444"},"modified":"2016-05-26T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T03:45:26","slug":"penguins-top-lightning-2-1-to-advance-to-stanley-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=268444","title":{"rendered":"Penguins top Lightning 2-1 to advance to Stanley Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/penguins-top-lightning-2-1-to-advance-to-stanley-cup-final\/15731224\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/2016\/05\/26\/15731224\/15731225-1464320612-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning Penguins Hockey\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bryan Rust scored a pair of second-period goals and Matt Murray stopped 16 shots to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday night to send the franchise to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2009. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/penguins-top-lightning-2-1-to-advance-to-stanley-cup-final\/15731224\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/penguins-top-lightning-2-1-to-advance-to-stanley-cup-final\/15731224\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Penguins top Lightning 2-1 to advance to Stanley Cup Final\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Rust scored a pair of second-period goals and Matt Murray stopped 16 shots to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 2-1 victory over the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}