Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Referee Ion's decision had been a lucky break for the Red Wings, they deserved it because: 1) it was the first break they had had since the playoffs started, and 2) they were the better team. League leaders through the regular season, the Red Wings reached the playoffs handicapped by injuries to three of their best players, sustained two more in the playoffs when their star defenseman, Ebbie Goodfellow, and star goalie, Norman Smith, both went on the sidelines (TIME, April 5). A rookie team which nosed out the feeble Chicago Blackhawks for third place, the Rangers...
...professional hockey, the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, battered silver trophy that has been the game's No. i prize since 1894, mean what the World Series means to professional baseball. The difference is that the playoffs achieve their point much less directly. If the Stanley Cup were awarded to the winner of the series between the two teams that led their respective divisions of the National Hockey League, the maximum number of games in the playoffs would be five. What happens instead is that all but the two worst of the league's eight teams engage...
Adams House captured the House basketball championship by crushing Lowell House 31-11 yesterday afternoon in a playoff game for the title. As a result of this victory the Goldcoasters travel to Yale to engage the leading college team there at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon...
...further doubts last week as he waited for Manero to finish, Cooper could have thankfully reflected that lightning rarely strikes twice in the same place. In the 1927 Open, he posted what looked like a winning 301. Tommy Armour tied it, beat him in the playoff...
...McGill; January 7, Toronto; January 9, Dartmouth; January 12, Brown at Providence; January 16, Princeton; February 6, Dartmouth at Hanover; February 10, Queens College; February 13, Princeton at Princeton; February 20, University of Montreal at Montreal; February 27, Yale at New Haven; March 6, Yale; March 11, Yale playoff at New Haven...