Sentences with phrase «playoff home games»

This season, they finished with the league's fourth - best home record and have won all their playoff home games.

The win brought Pittsburgh to 17 - 7 over its last 24 playoff home games.

Not exact matches

If the season ended today, the Vikings would be preparing for a home playoff game as the third seed in the NFC.

The Falcons can win their way into the playoffs against the Panthers on Sunday, but Carolina is still fighting to secure a home game in the Wild Card round, so they won't be rolling over.

The logic: The Falcons need to win to make the playoffs, while a win for Carolina could get them in position to win the division and get a home game in the Wild Card round.

In 2014 it will be home to the NCAA Men's Final Four and in 2015 the inaugural College Football Playoff Championship Game.

But I hope on Sunday that is not what the Flyers bring to their first home playoff game in two years.

The Packers ended the season with a 12 - 4 record after averaging an NFL - high 39.8 points per game while winning all eight home games, and so it is the first time in NFL playoff history that a team with a perfect home record faces one with a perfect away record.

Reminder: the Raptors have never won a Game 1 home playoff gGame 1 home playoff gamegame.

Winning their game 23 - 4 and sending Team Greenberg and their playoff hopes home.

They beat the Giants in a one - game playoff, and they beat the Cubs in the NLDS, with Pujols hitting a dramatic home run.

Sergei Bobrovsky, CBJ — The Capitals set a franchise record for most shots on goal in regulation of a home playoff game and finished with 58 in total.

Their final two games will be at home to Blackburn and away to Blackpool, in what could be two crucial matches in determining who makes the playoffs.

This is a group that has made a habit of sending Teams home come Playoff time and all of a sudden they've won a couple Games in a row and are just a Game back in the Standings of being in the top half..

After adjusting the season type to include both regular season and playoff games, we utilized the «home / visitor» filter to focus solely on road teams.

I went to every playoff game at home.

That has rarely been more apparent than in his post-game press conference on Friday after the Lakers sustained a 120 - 89 defeat to the San Antonio Spurs, their worst ever home playoff loss, in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals.

You can stumble along, finish a little above.500, and then get hot during section playoffs, qualify for NorCals, and then win a couple games, and everybody goes home happy.

In the first of three NBA playoff games Friday night, the New York Knicks went into Boston for the first Celtics home game since the Boston Marathon bombings and defeated the C's, 90 - 76.

A victory in the season finale would make Minnesota the division champ, plus give them the No. 3 seed and a home playoff game on the second weekend of January.

With a 48 - 17 record at week's end, 2 1/2 games better than Seattle's, Utah is poised to gain home court advantage throughout the Western Conference playoffs for the first time in history.

I'd like to think the Rams suffered some sort of cosmic karma payback for the shitty condition they had their field in for a home playoff game.

The Indiana Pacers earned a split against the Cleveland Cavaliers on the road and now return home for Game 3 of their NBA playoff series on Friday night in Indiana.

The winner of this game is very likely to end up having the top seed in the NFC overall, and I am sure the Packers would rather be at home in the playoffs rather than on the road at any point.

It's an interesting game because both teams still have a lot to play for — the Panthers can wrap up home - field advantage with a win, and the Falcons need to win out (and get a lot of help) to make the playoffs.

For the Seahawks, there has to be an element of desperation surrounding this game; they have to know that if they lose at home to the Cardinals, their chances of making the playoffs drop dramatically.

I am always nervous with home court to open the playoffs, you are just getting into your stride and one sub-par game can see you lose home court.

Tyson Barrie had a goal and an assist, and Landeskog, Carl Soderberg and Matt Nieto also scored to help Colorado gain ground in the Western Conference playoff race with its 13th win in 14 home games.

Now take a look at the skill positions, other than running back, for the Seahawks and try to explain how Wilson will fare any better than Stafford this Sunday, home or not, in a game that could have major playoff implications for both teams.

Out of the blue, he gives this animated press conference and subsequently the team goes on a roll, wins the division, makes the playoffs and wins a playoff game at home.

Well, two games later, the Oklahoma City Thunder have won two games of their own, the last of which on the back of Kevin Durant, unsurprisingly, and a career night from Serge Ibaka, and the Spurs return home facing their first true adversity of the playoffs.

Im not concerned about pekka in this scenario.The worst case for us (Saros struggles) he (pekka) gets one game rest like he did all the time in the regular season and goes back in at home, in the best case for us juuse can make an positiv impact and we ride him for this series... the only thing what would bother me about the worst case is, you could argue that our future # 1 seems to show nerves in the playoffs.

There was a flurry of repetitions when Russ Hodges, ordinarily a somewhat phlegmatic sportscaster, gave his on - the - spot report of Bobby Thomson's «miracle of Coogan's Bluff» home run in the Dodger - Giant playoff game in 1951: «The Giants win the pennant!

«Home games against Ohio State and Michigan have MSU eyeing a return to the B1G Championship and the College Football Playoff.

The Predators» home playoff win streak has been halted at 10 games, but what a ride it was getting to this point.

After a stellar regular season — he finished a close second to the Dodgers» Hideo Nomo for NL Rookie of the Year — Jones played even better in the playoffs, hitting.364 with three home runs and eight RBIs in 14 games.

The Chicago Blackhawks have an awesome new on - ice projection that they introduced for their first home game of the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Assuming the Eagles play their first playoff game at home, here are Cooley's projected point spreads against potential NFC opponents:

Five of those wins came in the division, which is why they stand where they stand, having a home game in the playoffs.

After two consecutive road losses, the Washington Wizards (51 - 35 SU, 44 - 41 ATS) will return home to the Verizon Center to face the Atlanta Hawks (45 - 41 SU, 41 - 45 ATS) in Game 5 of their first - round playoff series.

With his team down 2 - 1 to the Yankees in the best - of - five AL playoffs, E. Martinez had two home runs and a playoff - record seven RBIs in the Mariners» do - or - die Game 4 victory.

Eight of those road games and six of the seven home games are against playoff - chase teams.

With just one game remaining in the regular season, the Oakland Raiders actually have a chance at home - field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs.

Only four of the road games and four of the home games come against playoff - possible teams.

The Titans made a surprising run to the NorCal semifinals a year ago after losing in the section final, but hope to take things farther this year with some home games in the NorCal playoffs.

The fourth - seeded Raptors are 4.5 games ahead of the No. 5 Atlanta Hawks, so losing Ibaka through the regular season won't hurt their odds at home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

The away games feature four playoff or playoff - potential teams; the home games also have four matchups with playoff teams.

However, Rodgers guided Green Bay to six consecutive wins en route to the NFC North title and a home playoff game.

Hosting their first home playoff game in three years, the Blazers pulled out all the stops.

Yeah, I understand the frustration, but booing during a playoff game is less than helpful to the struggling home team.