More recently, the Red Wings have made the playoffs in 26 of the last 28 seasons, including the last 21 in a row ( 1991 – 2012 ).

The following season Yzerman scored 62 goals, but the team missed the playoffs ( which as of 2012 is the most recent time they did so ).

In 2012, the Astros were eliminated from the playoffs before September 5th.

The Saints lost Saturday, January 14, 2012 in the Divisional round in the playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers in Candlestick Park.

On January 8, 2012 in the first round of the playoffs the Giants defeated the Atlanta Falcons 24 – 2.

However, under current president and general manager Lou Lamoriello, the Devils have made the playoffs all but three times between 1988 and 2012, including thirteen berths in a row from 1997 to 2010.

Since entering the league, Miami has fielded squads that have made the playoffs 16 out of 24 seasons, capturing nine division titles, three Eastern Conference Championships, and two NBA Championships, defeating the Dallas Mavericks 4 – 2 in the 2006 NBA Finals and the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 – 1 in the 2012 NBA Finals.

Philadelphia earned the eighth seed in the 2012 NBA playoffs, facing off against the 1st seeded Chicago Bulls.

The Clippers won 12 of their next 14 games, including road wins over the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and the Western-Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder, clinching only their fifth playoff birth since their 1976 conference semi-finals loss to the Boston Celtics ( the last time they made the playoffs as the Buffalo Braves ) before a dominating home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 16, 2012.

On March 31, 2012, the Blackhawks clinched the playoffs with a 5-4 win over the Nashville Predators.

In Major League Soccer in the U. S. and Canada, at the end of the regular season, the top five teams in each of its two conferences qualify for the playoffs ( as of the 2012 season ).

Beginning with the 2012 – 13 season, the pool stage of the promotion playoffs will be abolished, with the top four sides directly entering the semi-finals.

In 2012, the Montgomery Red Raiders baseball team reached the championship game of the PIAA State playoffs.

Mark Messier retired only 11 NHL games behind Howe at 1, 756 ( and counting minor league action and playoffs, 2, 048 total professional games ), but this is over five seasons away from 2, 478 total professional games ( including minor league action ), almost a thousand games ahead of the active career leader at the end of 2012 ( Roman Hamrlik ).

On May 31, 2012, in the third game of the Western Conference Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Duncan set the record for most career blocks in playoffs history, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

With a 4 – 14 record in 2012 under first-year head coach Bret Munsey, the Predators missed the playoffs for the first time since their inaugural season in 1991.

Mustangs men's team in 2012 playoffs vs. Windsor Lancers.

Its current champions are the Fort Wayne Komets, which defeated the Wichita Thunder four games to one in the 2012 playoffs.

During the 2012 NFL playoffs, the Patriots defeated the Denver Broncos, 45-10, and the Baltimore Ravens, 23-20.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

As of spring 2012, more than 5, 000 students were enrolled at ASU Online.

From 2011 to 2012 two new teams were added to the competition — the Gold Coast Suns in 2011 and the Greater Western Sydney Giants in 2012.

As Amani Elobeid and John Beghin note, the world price might decline by as much as 48 % ( by 2011 / 2012 baselines ) were these distortions to be removed

Sanofi-Pasteur's BCG vaccine products, made with the Glaxo 1077 strain, were recalled in July 2012 due to noncompliance in the manufacturing process.

By 2012, 26 varieties herbicide-resistant GM maize were authorised for import into the European Union ,.

In 2012, the US Air Force alleged that two of its female airmen were subjected to cyber-bullying after receiving Bronze Star Medals for meritorious non-combat service.

Chaplin's photographic archives are held by the Musée de l ' Élysée in Lausanne, and some of the images in the collection were presented in an exhibition, Charlie Chaplin – Images d ' Un Mythe, in 2011 – 2012.

On April 12, 2012, Bir and 30 other officers were taken in custody for their role in the 1997 military memorandum that forced the then Turkish government, led by the Islamist Welfare Party, to step down.

" The UK Council for Psychotherapy issued a press release in 2012 saying that the IAPT's policies were undermining traditional psychotherapy and criticized proposals that would limit some approved therapies to CBT, claiming that they restricted patients to " a watered down version of cognitive behavioural therapy ( CBT ), often delivered by very lightly trained staff ".

Undergraduate tuition for the 2011 – 2012 school year was $ 36, 387 and total annual costs were estimated to be $ 54, 090.

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

On July 27th, 2012, Fulham FC were granted permission to redevelop the Riverside Stand, increasing the capacity of Craven Cottage to 30, 000 seats.

A week later, on 21 April 2012, they were confirmed as Champions after a 2 – 1 home win over Wycombe Wanderers.

On June 8, 2012, it was announced that after 35 years of hosting the show, the Magliozzi brothers were retiring and that Car Talk would stop producing new episodes as of October 2012, but that NPR will continue airing the show in reruns.

By 1993, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had made the program available nationwide ; by 2012, CERT programs were offered in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Jones ' life and legacy were celebrated January 12, 2012 with the official grand opening of The Chuck Jones Experience at Circus Circus Las Vegas.

By the early 1990s, however, relational systems were dominant for all large-scale data processing applications, and they remain dominant today ( 2012 ) except in niche areas.

In July 2012, lensing observations were used to identify a " filament " of dark matter between two clusters of galaxies, as cosmological simulations have predicted.

In the fall of 2010, having returned to Bloomington, he met Baofen Lin in a chacha class, and the two were married in Bloomington in September 2012.

The show started as a half-hour program, but expanded to one hour on March 9, 2012.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

The initial group of 13 British artists has expanded to 233 groups in 52 countries as of July 2012.

Willis returned, in an expanded role, in The Expendables 2 ( 2012 ).

The Comprehensive Second-Hand Smoke Control Ordinance was expanded in the beginning of 2008 requiring 80 % of rental apartment buildings to be permanently designated as non-smoking units by January 1, 2012.

On September 18, 2012, Hershey opened a new and expanded West Hershey plant.

The city has expanded from a population of 11, 000 in 1891 to a total of between 1, 865, 137 and 2, 076, 941 according to the 2012 reports which makes it the 6th largest city in Pakistan.

VJing also expanded to the internet in 2012 with Rap Genius's YouTube personality Nicole.

In 2011 Sussex Yachts Ltd initiated an ambitious scheme to regenerate the East Quay with their yacht refit business opening Newhaven Boatyard the largest marine refit facility in the South East. Sussex Yachts Ltd The project expanded into commercial vessel maintenance and refit in 2012.

The Department of Civil Aviation has also said that Terminal 2 will continuously be upgraded and expanded to bring the total capacity of the airport from the initial 75 million passengers to 80 million passenger capacity by 2012.

After a limited release on July 13, 2012, the release was expanded to over 1, 000 theaters in late August 2012.

As of 2012 CCTV and Xinhua had greatly expanded international coverage and operations particularly in Africa.

Beginning in 2012, the competition was expanded from its previous 40 teams to 64, with the qualifying process radically changed.

In 2012, the NHC expanded the windspeed range for Category 4 by 1 mph in both directions, to 130-156 mph ( 113-136 kt, 209-251 km / h ) from 131-155 mph ( 114-135 kt, 210-249 km / h ).

Passengers will now only have to pass through one checkpoint and access a newly expanded food court and escalators to both concourses past the new checkpoint, construction will begin in 2012 or 2013.

An expanded and improved BFG Edition is due to be released in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Even so, the convention has expanded since then, with attendance above 26, 000 in both 2008 and 2009 attendance surpassing 29, 000 in 2010 and attendance officially surpassing the 30, 000 mark in 2012.

In June 2012 Diageo announced a £ 1 billion investment in Scotch whisky production over the following five years, with at least one new distillery to be constructed, several existing facilities to be expanded, and overall production capacity to be increased by 30 to 40 per cent.

It was significantly expanded in 2012.

January 2012: The limited capacity of the current dock at Soekarno-Hatta sea port will be expanded to 150x30 square meters to overcome queueing of at least two ships every day.

" Byrne made an expanded defense of the passer rating and its importance for the Pro Football Researchers Association in 2012.