National Ringette League playoffs


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.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

Records

Team records

TeamGPWLOTLSL
Atlantic Attack46202510
BC Thunder2211920
Black Gold Rush2051500
Bourassa Royal102701
Calgary RATH61322720
Cambridge Turbos72531630
Edmonton WAM!50321620
Gatineau Fusion91800
Gloucester Devils62283130
Lac St.Louis Adrenaline51400
Manitoba Intact114610
Manitoba Jets70601
Montreal Mission57282720
Ottawa Ice63372600
Prairie Fire159510
Quebec City Cyclones134900
Richmond Hill Lighting69392811
Rive Sud Revolution1111000
Waterloo Wildfire39152310

Final game record