{"id":581120,"date":"2018-02-20T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=581120"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:40:34","slug":"gold-canes-control-their-playoff-destiny-but-will-they-take-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=581120","title":{"rendered":"Gold: Canes control their playoff destiny, but will they take advantage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/canes-getting-yet-another-chance\/17355605\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/hurricanes\/2018\/02\/18\/17352817\/media_cf3d1732931f4f999e49f9ba056b8a0d-DMID1-5durold1p-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Devils_Hurricanes_Hockey_70172\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Hurricanes have squandered almost every opportunity to maintain a playoff spot.  They&#8217;ve struggled to score, suffered gut-wrenching losses and just dropped three straight key games.  Yet, they&#8217;re still tied for the final spot with six weeks to play. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/canes-getting-yet-another-chance\/17355605\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/canes-getting-yet-another-chance\/17355605\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Gold: Canes control their playoff destiny, but will they take advantage?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hurricanes have squandered almost every opportunity to maintain a playoff spot. They&#8217;ve struggled to score, suffered gut-wrenching losses and just dropped three straight key games&#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-581120","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\/581120","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=581120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910866,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581120\/revisions\/1910866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}