Sentence examples for Beyond playoff from inspiring English sources

So there was copious sweating, not just for temperatures in the "What have we done to deserve this?" zone, but for two teams tied for sixth in the West, still idling nervously one spot beyond playoff grace.

The team keeps hanging around, now two spots beyond playoff grace, but just near enough to the post-season finish line to keep us all coming back, with just enough intrigue to make us check the scores on our mobiles on random Saturday nights.

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His greatest thrill as a player beyond the playoff game, he said, was helping to end Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941.

His save percentage was.946, second only to Jacques Plante's.949 with St . Louisin 1969 among goalies who played at least 10 games and 500 minutes since the league expanded beyond two playoff rounds in 1967.

Or it may not want to sign him beyond the playoffs, as was the case last year, when the Rangers acquired Bryan McCabe, a power-play specialist, then declined to sign him when his contract expired.

Reading want to take Sunderland's former striker Marcus Stewart, on loan until the end of the season, mistaking him for a striker who could fire them beyond the playoffs.

At 40, five years beyond his last playoff heroism, the bottom line is that he was cut because he shot air balls from the front office.

Beyond the Knicks' playoff hopes, their most critical goal this season was to develop their young players, to show the franchise was on the right track, and to give LeBron James and Dwyane Wade an incentive to sign here in July.

The Celtics overpowered and outplayed Philadelphia throughout the game, quieting a crowd enlivened for the franchise's first home playoff game beyond the first round since 2003.

He played for three teams, two of which no longer wanted him, and has little playoff experience beyond the first round.