{"id":567307,"date":"2018-01-23T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=567307"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:53:45","slug":"ward-to-start-as-canes-visit-pens-both-teams-clawing-to-stay-in-playoff-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=567307","title":{"rendered":"Ward to start as Canes visit Pens; both teams clawing to stay in playoff race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/canes-visit-pens-as-both-teams-look-to-stay-in-contention\/17282784\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/hurricanes\/2018\/01\/22\/17279742\/Knights-vs-Canes-012118-CB-144-DMID1-5djpdwkow-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Hurricanes fall 5-1 to NHL-leading Golden Knights\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins and Carolina Hurricanes might well have their claws out when they meet Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena &#8212; not so much with the intention of playing a nasty game but rather to try to climb over the other&#8217;s back in the tight Metropolitan Division. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/canes-visit-pens-as-both-teams-look-to-stay-in-contention\/17282784\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/canes-visit-pens-as-both-teams-look-to-stay-in-contention\/17282784\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Ward to start as Canes visit Pens; both teams clawing to stay in playoff race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins and Carolina Hurricanes might well have their claws out when they meet Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena &#8212; not so much with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canes","category-featured-stories","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567307","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910884,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567307\/revisions\/1910884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}