Sentences with phrase «out of a playoff spot»

Vancouver, which entered Monday 18 points out of a playoff spot, traded a couple of veterans before the deadline Monday afternoon.

Look at the Oilers: even with McDavid they were 17 points out of a playoff spot this year.

Will teams out of contention try to play spoiler and knock teams on the bubble out of a playoff spot or will they simply mail it in?

Not exact matches

Out of the seven teams that have clinched playoff spots so far, the Ravens are in the worst shape, and yesterday proved it.

This is one of the best team's out there right now and they have 4 weeks to really push into a top spot before the Playoffs start.

Their final 5 are not easy and if they want to climb out of the 15 spot (seeds 15 - 20 have to play an Opening Round in the Playoffs) they need to bring down the stretch..

They are in a spot right now where if they can get on a bit of a roll they can get out of the Bottom - 6 and will have a much easier time in the Playoffs.

At 15 - 21 through week's end, the Kings were only four games out of a Western Conference playoff spot and showing newfound resilience under coach Eddie Jordan.

Utah's now one game out of the West's final playoff spot with one game to go after topping the Wolves on Monday.

On this evidence, he has plenty of talent to work with as he aims to push the Berkshire Blues towards the playoff spots, which are currently seven points out of reach.

If they don't get out of this funk, I could see the push for a playoff spot taking a whole lot longer than necessary, and making it in as a WC2 is not totally out of the question.

Poulter, who played his butt off to win the Houston Open in a playoff and grab the last spot in the Masters, told reporters that his four rounds last week at the Golf Club of Houston tired him out so much he got to Augusta not at all ready for the men's first major of the season.

They need to hope the Bulls either fall out of the playoffs or hang on for the eighth spot — they're only a 1.5 games behind the Pacers for the seventh seed.

The Sooners» decision to schedule tough out - of - conference games at Houston and at home against Ohio State ultimately cost Oklahoma a spot in the College Football Playoff.

I mean it's good that the schedule is coming out but I am not gonna sit there and watch 3 hours of coverage explaining why a Packers / Giants game in week 5 is pivotal when we haven't even reached the draft, or why the Rams will be in a good spot to make the playoffs by week 10.

The Top - 6 Teams go straight to the Elite8, while the other 4 Teams will battle it out in an extra Opening Round of the Playoffs to try and earn the final spots in the Elite8.

They are still one spot out of the Playoffs but will have two chances to pick up another W.

After three weeks it kind seems like there is no dominant team and it will come down to who manages to get the first spots in the playoffs (Remember they get to pick their opponent out of the 5 - 8 seeds) and who squeaks in.

Tons of time to turn it around and with so many weeks left and so many playoff spots out there..

The incident put Matt Kenseth out of the race, almost costing him a spot in the championship playoffs

By any measure of logic — and justice — the Hawks should have been playing garbage time from Thanksgiving on, but the luck of the NBA's four - way divisional split has left Atlanta with only Cincinnati to beat out for the playoff spot behind Baltimore in the Central Division.

The Jazz would perhaps be better off in the lottery, but their super streak has them in the thick of the hunt for the final playoff spot out west.

Borussia Monchengladbach comes into the match six points out of the Europa League qualifying 6th spot while Wolfsburg are tied on points for the playoff relegation spot.