National Ringette League playoffs
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National Ringette League playoffs are the knockout match, round robin and tournament for determining the champion for National Ringette League.
Format
The current format consists of three parts: Knockout match, Elite eight and tournament.
- Knockout Stage: the best-of-three match to determine the three East conference teams and one West conference team to advance to the Elite eight.
- Elite eight: the eight-team round robin matches. Each team play seven games one time and is held at one city from 2011-12 season.
- Tournament: the semifinal and final. Second and third place team in Elite eight go to the semifinal and winner against top team in Elite eight.
History
The playoffs was started from second season of the National Ringette League which was 2005-06 season.
In 2010-11 season, the playoffs held in just one city and from next season, the Elite eight and the tournament starts.
From the 2015-16 season, the number of teams in West conference became 4, the Knockout stage consisted five East conference team and three West conference Team.
In the 2016-17 season, the number of Western Conference teams became 5 the number of teams advanced to the Elite Eight are still the same.
Final results
| Year | Champion | Result | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Edmonton WAM! | 4-2 | Cambridge Turbos |
| 2012 | LMRL Thunder | 7-2 | Montreal Mission |
| 2013 | Calgary RATH | 6-5 | Prairie Fire |
| 2014 | Ottawa Ice | 7-4 | Cambridge Turbos |
| 2015 | Cambridge Turbos | 6-2 | Richmond Hill Lighting |
| 2016 | Cambridge Turbos | 5-3 | Gloucester Devils |
| 2017 | Cambridge Turbos | 6-5 | Atlantic Attack |
| 2018 | Atlantic Attack | 5-3 | Edmonton WAM! |
Records
- All records are from 2011 playoffs.
- Stats updated as of end of 2018 playoffs.
Playoffs appearance
| Team | Appearance | Knockout stage | Elite Eight[1][2] | Semifinal | Final[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Attack | 7 | 4 | 5(3) | 0 | 2(2) |
| BC Thunder[3] | 4 | 2 | 2(2) | 1 | 1(0) |
| Black Gold Rush | 2 | 2 | 2(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
| Bourassa Royal | 4 | 4 | 0(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
| Calgary RATH | 8 | 0 | 8(8) | 2 | 1(0) |
| Cambridge Turbos | 8 | 2 | 8(6) | 5 | 5(2) |
| Edmonton WAM! | 6 | 1 | 6(5) | 3 | 2(1) |
| Gatineau Fusion | 5 | 5 | 1(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
| Gloucester Devils | 7 | 7 | 5(0) | 1 | 1(1) |
| Lac St.Louis Adrenaline | 2 | 2 | 0(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
| Manitoba Intact | 2 | 2 | 1(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
| Manitoba Jets[4] | 1 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 0(0) |
| Montreal Mission | 8 | 3 | 7(5) | 0 | 1(1) |
| Ottawa Ice | 8 | 8 | 6(0) | 3 | 1(0) |
| Prairie Fire[4] | 3 | 0 | 3(3) | 0 | 1(1) |
| Quebec City Cyclones[5] | 3 | 3 | 1(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
| Richmond Hill Lighting | 8 | 8 | 7(0) | 1 | 1(0) |
| Rive Sud Revolution | 5 | 5 | 0(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
| Waterloo Wildfire | 6 | 6 | 3(0) | 1 | 0(0) |
| Whitby Wild[4] | 1 | 1 | 0(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
Team records
- The overtime loss(es) will be counted as OTL in team records but not in final game records.
| Team | GP | W | L | OTL | SL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Attack | 46 | 20 | 25 | 1 | 0 |
| BC Thunder | 22 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| Black Gold Rush | 20 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| Bourassa Royal | 10 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| Calgary RATH | 61 | 32 | 27 | 2 | 0 |
| Cambridge Turbos | 72 | 53 | 16 | 3 | 0 |
| Edmonton WAM! | 50 | 32 | 16 | 2 | 0 |
| Gatineau Fusion | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Gloucester Devils | 62 | 28 | 31 | 3 | 0 |
| Lac St.Louis Adrenaline | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Manitoba Intact | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Manitoba Jets | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Montreal Mission | 57 | 28 | 27 | 2 | 0 |
| Ottawa Ice | 63 | 37 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Prairie Fire | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Quebec City Cyclones | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Richmond Hill Lighting | 69 | 39 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
| Rive Sud Revolution | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo Wildfire | 39 | 15 | 23 | 1 | 0 |
Final game record
| Team | GP | W | L[6] | % | Most recent appearances | Most recent titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Attack | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 | 2018 | 2018 |
| BC Thunder[7] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 2012 | 2012 |
| Cambridge Turbos | 5 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2017 | 2017 |
| Calgary RATH | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 2013 | 2013 |
| Edmonton WAM! | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 | 2018 | 2011 |
| Gloucester Devils | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2016 | Never |
| Montreal Mission | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2012 | Never |
| Ottawa Ice | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 2014 | 2014 |
| Prairie Fire | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2013 | Never |
| Richmond Hill Lighting | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2015 | Never |