Questions tagged [postseason]
Questions about the postseason, also informally known as "playoffs," or the period of time after the regular season in which teams compete to win a championship. Questions using this tag should also be tagged with the specific sport(s) in question.
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How many times has a 4 game sweep occurred during the Stanley Cup finals?
After their win on June 9, 2014, the LA Kings are one game away from winning the Stanley Cup. If they win their next game, they will sweep the NY Rangers to win the Stanley Cup.
Since the adoption of ...
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Can a team sign an NFL player during the playoffs?
I was watching the Seahawks playoff game on 5 January 2019 and the kicker got injured. For instance, if the Seahawks won that game, could they sign a new player to replace the injured kicker or is the ...
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Can a team in the NFL make the playoffs with only three wins?
It's impossible for all the teams in a division to have losing records in their divisional games--every time someone loses a game, someone else in the division wins it. But the home team could win ...
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NBA 7 game playoff series where every game was won by the road team?
I have only ever come across this 5-game series (1984 ECR1, NJN vs PHI, NJN win 3-2), where the road team won every game.
Has this ever happened in a 7-game series?
(In recent memory, one series in ...
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Has any two teams in the World Series ever get there without losing a game during the postseason?
Related: Has there been a time the 2 NBA or NHL teams in the playoffs final series got there without losing any games?
MLB Postseason Format Timeline:
Before 1969, the team with the best record from ...
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History of reverse sweeps in the Stanley cups finals?
I tought the habs being 0-3 in the stanley cups finals would make every sport news site in Montreal dig up every time a stanley cup reverse sweep happened to show there is still hope; but nobody seem ...
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Has there been a time the 2 NBA or NHL teams in the playoffs final series got there without losing any games?
The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers started the 2016-2017 postseason by winning their first 10 playoff games.
Given their dominance, I'm wondering if there has ever been an NBA or NHL ...
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