While the 1972 team faced no competition that possessed a better record than 8-6 in the regular season, the 1973 team played a much tougher schedule that included games against the Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Dallas Cowboys ( all playoff teams ), plus two games against a resurgent Buffalo Bills squad that featured 2, 000-yard rusher O. J.

While they still retain a very large and dedicated fan base, the team has only seen 2 playoff victories in 3 appearances.

While having a steady season without making any real ground in the playoff race, the Warriors were breaking franchise records with 21 made 3's in a win against Orlando Magic.

While ultimately finishing far out of playoff contention, the Lightning showed some signs of life, earning more than 60 points for the first time since 1997.

While the team led or was second in the West Division for four straight seasons, for the rest of the 1970s, the Black Hawks made the playoffs each year — winning seven division championships in the decade in all — but were never a successful Stanley Cup contender, losing 16 straight playoff games at one point.

While making a hit in the playoff game against the Knights that turned over the ball on downs, Shark gets knocked unconscious.

While the galleries were more than vocal in their support for Palmer, who had grown up in the area, Nicklaus won the playoff by three shots ( 71 to 74 ).

While the Wings were not an immediate success on the floor, going 3-3 and 3-5 in the first two regular seasons with two playoff losses, they were the biggest draw in the league.

While the 1970 playoff loss to the Raiders signified the dawn, this 1974 loss tolled as the end of an era.

While the Colts and Browns were respectable playoff contenders during this period, AFL fans accepted the Steelers because of the team's dominance throughout the league, winning four Super Bowls in a six year span.

While the number of playoff teams will remain at 10, the " wild cards " will disappear.

While he may not have put up the points the Rangers expected him to at the end of the regular season, Kurri proved some of his value by notching 8 points in 11 playoff games with the Rangers.

While the Cubs were far out of contention for a playoff spot, Zambrano continued with a positive attitude.

While playing for Montreal, during a playoff game against the Calgary Flames, Claude Lemieux bit Calgary's Jim Peplinski on the finger during a scuffle, prompting the Calgary winger to say, " I didn't know they allowed cannibalism in the NHL.

While playing for the Lakers, he hit a buzzer beater with 0. 4 seconds left in game 5 of the 2004 Western Conference Semifinals against the San Antonio Spurs, which the NBA lists as the 18th-greatest playoff moment of all time.

While Clapper scored four goals in six playoff games, the Bruins were shocked in the Stanley Cup finals by the Montreal Canadiens in their best-of-three series.

While there, he started at quarterback and led the Matadors to the 1990 Western Football Conference co-championship and the program's only playoff appearance.

While they were seeded third as a division winner, in actuality they had the second-lowest point total ( 91 ) for a playoff team not only in the Eastern Conference, but also the whole NHL.

While NBC had several 5: 30 p. m. start times for games, ABC has only gone beyond that time on Christmas, and for select playoff games, including the Finals.

While in the Northern Premier League local derbies were contended with Willenhall Town, Leek Town, Hednesford Town and Witton Albion, the latter of whom The Bucks defeated in the playoff final of 2006 / 07 season 3 – 1.

While they earned good results within their own division, they were unable to advance in the playoff rounds.

While Schwab led the league in goals against average with 2. 59, the two combined for the AHL's fewest goals against and were awarded the Harry " Hap " Holmes Memorial Trophy as well as the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the playoff MVP's helping the River Rats capture their first Calder Cup title.

While Aguirre's time in Dallas was full of high-scoring efforts and playoff visits, the Mavericks were postseason underachievers ( their only Western Conference Finals visit was the 1988 loss to the Lakers ), and Aguirre had repeated conflicts with coach Dick Motta and players like Rolando Blackman, Derek Harper and James Donaldson.

While McHale concentrated on upper management responsibilities during his first decade with the Expos, he eventually assumed their general manager portfolio as well, and it was during his watch ( as GM from 1978 – 84 ) that the Expos achieved their only playoff appearance, in.

While the western powers were in session to mediate the situation, the Chinese troops were making their final stand in Shanghai and had all hopes for a western intervention that would save China from collapse.

While Special Awards and Citations continue to be an important option, the Pulitzer Board believes that the Music Prize, in its own annual competition, should encompass the nation's array of distinguished music and hopes that the refinements in the Prize's definition, guidelines and jury membership will serve that end .”

While progress toward union in the East continued to be made in the following decades, all hopes for a proximate reconciliation were dashed with the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

While the crack in the bell appears to end at the abbreviation " Philad < sup > a </ sup >" in the last line of the inscription, that is merely the 19th century widened crack which was filed out in the hopes of allowing the bell to continue to ring ; a hairline crack, extending through the bell to the inside continues generally right and gradually moving to the top of the bell, through the word " and " in " Pass and Stow ", then through the word " the " before the word " Assembly " in the second line of text, and through the letters " rty " in the word " Liberty " in the first line.

While the Catholic clergy supported him, Iturbide's coronation both dashed republican hopes and broke with the Plan of Iguala and the Treaty of Córdoba.

While presenting a paper in Prague at the Eighth International Congress of Philosophy, he discussed his hopes for a union of pragmatism and positivism.

While in Ireland, Arne began to pursue alchemy once more and he took a house at Clontarf in the hopes of discovering the philosopher's stone.

While on one such journey in Texas, he rediscovered his native and untutored talent for the flute and decided to travel to the northeast in hopes of finding employment as a musician in an orchestra.

While ostensibly digging expansive underground tunnels all over Tokyo as storage facilities for energy to be received from the Umbrella, a giant Genom space station in construction as a solar power generator, Mason is searching for the Sotai laboratory, a secret Genom facility believed lost in the great earthquake, where he hopes to find Galatea, the Sotai.

While Li Ji was initially unable to prevail in besieging the Zhao capital of Handan ( modern Handan, Hebei ), Zhao's hopes were virtually lost when Xiongnu forces, realizing Zhao was about to be defeated, chose not to join in the battle.

While Red House pinned their hopes on the CD's success, the band was not in a position to tour the States extensively since the time between 1991 and 1993 found many long-time members leaving the band.

While considered a front-runner for the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year due to his rapid scoring pace, an ankle injury that forced him to miss 10 games in December and the resulting scoring slump helped quash any hopes of winning the award.

While Tripp maintains she acted out of " patriotic duty ," some Americans believe that she betrayed Lewinsky in the hopes of using her knowledge of the relationship to obtain a possible book or movie deal, neither of which has occurred to date.

While their stated goal was to achieve the conversion of the pagans, most also sought additional territory and tithe for their dioceses ; Abbot Wibald of Corvey went in the hopes of acquiring the island of Rügen.

While the ADB's original hopes that the route would reduce transportation costs for the movement of vehicles, goods and people, and also promote faster economic growth, as the 7, 300 km North-South Corridor neared completion in 2008 the real costs and benefits of the project for the local populations of Southeast Asia were still in doubt.

While the Vatican hopes that titular sees will one day become active dioceses once again, it realizes in most cases the chances of that happening in the near future are low.

While there, he later said that he often took " her to parks and public places in hopes of sparking some recovery.

While participating in a town fair, George wants to publicize his revolutionary findings to the community with the hopes to make people's lives better ; instead, the townsfolk are more interested in seeing a display of his telekinesis, and a frenzied press conference ensues, overwhelming George and knocking him down.

While Air-Walker and Firelord served Galactus faithfully, Galactus secretly resurrected Morg, altering his personality in the hopes of making him more tractable.

While Eustacia and Wildeve are talking, Mrs. Yeobright knocks on the door ; she has decided to pay a courtesy call in the hopes of healing the estrangement between herself and her son.

" While his pair of Queens will provide the player's main hopes for victory, his twin monarchs King Tweedledee and King Tweedledum jointly provide his sequence of headaches!

While Mendes " always had high hopes " for herself, she didn't consider an acting career until a talent manager saw her photo in a friend's portfolio.

While giving performances in Omaha, he is courted by Irene ( Norma Shearer ), a trapeze artist, who claims to come from Russia and hopes both to replace Harry's drunken partner in the show and be his lover.

While the Soviet and American governments try to acquire as much of the oil as they can, Soviet-backed terrorists kidnap a US ambassador in hopes of provoking an international incident.