| There is no shortage of bad calls during the season, but in the playoffs the importance is magnified. |
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| He continued his late-season struggles into the playoffs, getting the hook in Game 2 after surrendering three goals in the first 15 minutes. |
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| The Giants typically make few call-ups, selecting players they believe can help them reach the playoffs. |
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| They will then be preparing for the playoffs where their fourth place league finish will ensure a home draw in the first round. |
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| Whether or not his club makes the playoffs, head coach Bishop said he is happy with how the season went. |
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| Despite playing more regular season games than he has since 2001, Shaquille O'Neal was hobbled through much of the playoffs. |
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| The versatile forward became a go-to guy in the playoffs, and parlayed that performance into a massive free-agent contract in the offseason. |
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| He's expected to miss the rest of the playoffs due to arthroscopic surgery. |
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| Not present was the Cubs fan who bobbled the ball out of play during the National League playoffs last summer. |
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| It would be a welcome bonus for a team that missed the playoffs with an 18-16 record last season. |
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| As they advance through the playoffs, the basketball staff looks forward to a nail-biting final between the two teams. |
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| Last season, the SFU women's volleyball had a breakout year, making the playoffs for the first time ever with an impressive 19-13 record. |
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| The A's whomped the Mariners 12-3, won the American League West pennant and secured their place in the playoffs. |
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| Even if this team sneaks into the playoffs as a wild card, it clearly is not a playoff-caliber team. |
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| Could they make the playoffs with this defense or is the team still a year or two away? |
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| During the playoffs in '82, Michaels claimed Raiders owner Al Davis had bugged the locker room at the Los Angeles Coliseum. |
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| Nobody thought this was a 60-win team, mind you, but certainly a strong enough group to return to the playoffs without a Hail Mary deal. |
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| Officials have come under heavy fire the last few weeks in the wake of a couple of controversial calls in the playoffs. |
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| Fantasy hockey has four weeks until the playoffs but to be fair most teams have played at least 24 games so far. |
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| This rebuilding job will need at least one more season of talent infusion to contend for the playoffs. |
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| If you weren't good enough to be one of the top six teams in your conference, you aren't deserving of going to the playoffs. |
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| The team is looking for playmakers who will propel it into the playoffs again and for years to come. |
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| The Oilers had some success with it, sure, but they always folded in the playoffs. |
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| New Orleans failed to make the playoffs despite some great seasons by Archie, but his son seems primed for eventual postseason success. |
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| Los Angeles Galaxy defender Paul Caligiuri had to cover Diallo in the first round of the playoffs. |
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| I think the real problem is that these crews are performing together for the first time in the playoffs. |
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| The glint of a smile briefly crosses his face when asked if he's ready for the playoffs. |
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| They took a step closer to the playoffs with a spectacular display of power football. |
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| They lost six of their final 10 games and then fell to New Orleans in the playoffs. |
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| Their defense played a huge role in helping them reach the playoffs for the third time in Edwards' four seasons. |
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| To gain the playoffs as the wild card, a team will need 90 wins, according to the best estimates. |
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| His 96-yard touchdown reception against the Raiders in the 2000 playoffs is an NFL record. |
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| The playoffs are a moneymaking bonus for the teams and the players, an important consideration in today's fiscally tight atmosphere. |
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| It's a good bet that at least 11 of the 12 drivers who will make NASCAR's version of the playoffs will come from this quartet of teams. |
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| I actually found myself on the verge of boycotting the playoffs because of the refs. |
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| Even so, Taylor said that the playoffs are a new season and the team is striving for a national championship despite being labelled as underdogs. |
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| Hopefully he's in good enough shape to perfect his diving routine for the playoffs, AMIRITE guys? |
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| Even if the club makes the playoffs, it won't be a factor until the players get more easy baskets and hold their own on the boards. |
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| Nothing will change until the team is officially eliminated from the playoffs. |
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| His superlative show in both playoffs and World Series in 2002 finally forced the media to let up on him. |
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| Within three seasons, Mariucci had guided the 49ers to the playoffs, a remarkable accomplishment. |
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| Condensing the playoffs would also avoid competition with the World Series, National Football League games, and college gridiron games. |
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| They keep trying to run Dennis Green out of town, even though he's gotten his team to the playoffs in seven of his eight seasons. |
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| The team has designs on making the playoffs, and it performs like a playoff team at home but not on the road. |
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| He went 15-6 with a 1.62 GAA in the playoffs and seems destined for further greatness. |
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| This means the Aussies will guarantee themselves a medal if they win one game in the playoffs. |
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| Who would know more about a great playoffs goaltender than a great playoffs goaltender? |
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| Partisans on both sides study the fluctuating daily polls with the avidity of baseball fans following the electrifying playoffs. |
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| Scott Stevens has shown in this year's playoffs that impact players don't have to be goal scorers or goaltenders. |
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| But he also admitted that even making the World Cup playoffs was a difficult target to hit. |
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| No surprise, the vast majority wanted to rip me for even suggesting that the NBA playoffs could compare with March Madness. |
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| But this was the playoffs, and her reign as ballgirl was ending after this pressure-packed evening. |
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| He's also the eighth goaltender to start the playoffs for the Flyers in eight years. |
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| The players still think they can make a run at the eighth seed in the playoffs. |
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| The playoffs are when goalies, anonymous outside of their own area, get to show their stuff to a larger audience. |
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| Thankfully, during week one of the playoffs, it was revealed that all of my friends had fallen prey to similar delusions of grandeur. |
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| Now Atlanta is in town for a final three games with payback on their mind for their disappointing exit from the playoffs last year. |
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| This earned them a spot in the playoffs where they clinched a playoff berth. |
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| Two of his first four wins came against the Yankees, the team that knocked the Mariners out of the playoffs in each of the past two Octobers. |
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| In 2000, he famously guaranteed that his team, despite a midseason slump, would get to the playoffs. |
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| If they go blitz-wacky against first-rate teams in the playoffs, woe may betide. |
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| With scoring at a premium in the playoffs, the teams with two prolific scorers are more difficult to match up against. |
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| And for a team like the Calgary Flames, which has missed the playoffs for five straight seasons, you need a pretty big spark to ignite playoff hopes. |
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| They made the playoffs just four times and managed to eke out only one playoff series win. |
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| As has been well documented, the White Sox lead-off man has now hit two homers in the playoffs after failing to go deep during the regular season in more than 500 at-bats. |
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| The New York Yankees will not even make the playoffs, let alone win the American League pennant or the World Series. |
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| The playoffs are no time to be clever by benching your most talented players because they have bad matchups and start experimenting with mediocre players in good matchups. |
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| Is it Comic Con, the World Chess Championship, the annual Dungeons and Dragons playoffs, or Tolkien Reading Day? |
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| To do so makes a mockery of what the playoffs should be all about. |
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| We forgave him for not shaking the hands of his opponents when Orlando erased the Cavs in the 2009 playoffs. |
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| The team joins the men's Clan on the road as they prepare for their games against the University of Saskatchewan as they make a mad dash for the playoffs. |
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| With Sanders, Indianapolis had the second-best run defense in the playoffs. |
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| His first two games as a pro were in the playoffs, and he had two points. |
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| Compare the batting orders from the 2004 opener and the 2004 playoffs opener to how they'd line up if the 2005 opener were happening today. |
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| The Chicago Cubs finished ten games over.500, but still didn't make the playoffs. |
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| The Packers will kick the tires on two injured starters in preparation for the playoffs. |
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| Indeed, the formerly London club have not finished top of the league since the playoffs began. |
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| The inaugural Champions Cup final was brought forward by three weeks due to a French desire not to interrupt their domestic playoffs. |
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| Boroughmuir won the league in 2016, and won the playoffs in the same year, beating the University in the final. |
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| We're not going anywhere. We've never gone anywhere. We're not even going to the playoffs. |
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| In 1999, the club reached the promotion playoffs, only to lose in extra time at Scunthorpe United. |
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| The men's team performed better than any other African nation at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, where they reached the playoffs for the first time. |
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| The team are having a strong season, and are on courseto reach the post season playoffs. |
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| And that is when the Chargers, snakebitten for so long in the playoffs, began their inexorable slide. |
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| I'm not going to wuss out and wimp out and say, 'My God, we're out of the playoffs, let me just tank it. |
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| Arkansas Razorbacks baseball announcer Phil Elson has been replaced for the rest of the playoffs. |
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| The NFL decided Tuesday to end the season the way it started, refusing to bring back instant replay for the playoffs. |
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| He's been able to do that all the way through the playoffs, so he's really backboned us. |
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| In slower news cycles, we fixate on the playoffs or Oscar nominees. |
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| The Chargers haven't made the playoffs since 2009, but they haven't been a bottom-feeder in the AFC like the Browns. |
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| This is exactly what they need to happen to win the NLDS, assuming of course they make the playoffs and don't suffer a monumental letdown. |
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| The fact the Dodgers made the playoffs, after a 12-month period of tremendous roster turnover, is almost unheard of in modern times. |
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| Perhaps the first sign that the playoffs are much different than regular season was Dunleavy's combative attitude. |
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| I mean, the NBA playoffs are almost upon us, and it would almost feel like old times around here if we had some kind of championship to talk about. |
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| It was nine next years before they got back to the playoffs. |
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| In the coziness of their suites, neither the sweltering season opener nor the frigid playoffs affect these fans with their ultimate view of the field. |
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| Last year when the two faced each other in the playoffs, I was more confused than a tiny truffle pig wandering around Paul Prudhomme's intestines. |
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| The Schilling they hope will emerge down the stretch is a big-game starting pitcher, a pitcher they can ride through the playoffs and into the World Series if he gets hot. |
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| In time for the National Hockey League playoffs and tracking more than 80 years of hard-hitting action, blistering slap shots and electrifying goals, FOXSports. |
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| Sometimes these middle games in the playoffs end up being unusual. |
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| Busser was named the Mid-Wach B MVP after helping the Crusaders to a 14-7 mark before falling to Marlboro in the first round of the Division 2 playoffs. |
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| After five consecutive years of early losses in the playoffs, Valencia finally got over the hump and into the semifinals of the Southern Section Div. |
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| He threw in six in the Panthers' loss to Arroyo Grande in the first round of the playoffs to close 1997 and had four against Sahuaro of Tucson last Saturday. |
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| In 2013, Mexico's basketball team won the Americas Basketball Championship and qualified for the 2014 Basketball World Cup where it reached the playoffs. |
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| Royle inherited a side struggling near the Division One relegation zone, but revived fortunes such that the team narrowly failed to reach the playoffs. |
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