the first time i experienced playoffs was truly so long ago that i cannot remember! the first one i can remember was as a member of New England we were missing playoffs for a bit and then we made the playoffs! but we did not win the cump

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My first playoffs were in the J with NL, we got to the finals but unfortunately got swept in the finals. Who knew that those finals would be the beginning of the Nham dynasty.

My first time making the playoffs not as a TFL DFA was my rookie season in the SMJHL. The Maine Timber were the dominant team of that season and carried that energy into the playoffs. We won the 4 Star Cup while my player won playoff MVP for a dominant postseason in the net.

Bernard Lodge| #1 | Goaltender | Maine Timber

SMJHL Regular Season Stats:
S70 | MET | GP: 03| W: 02 | L: 01 | OTL: 0 | SV%: .921 | GAA: 2.02 | SO: 1
S71 | MET | GP: 45| W: 34 | L: 07 | OTL: 2 | SV%: .904 | GAA: 2.64 | SO: 6
S72 | MET | GP: 41| W: 26 | L: 13 | OTL: 2 | SV%: .887 | GAA: 3.25 | SO: 1
Career | MET | GP: 89 | W: 62 | L: 21 | OTL: 5 | SV%: .904 | GAA: 2.64 | SO: 8

SMJHL Postseason Stats:
S70 | MET | GP: 5 | W: 04 | L: 01 | OTL: 0 | SV%: .903 | GAA: 3.00| SO: 0
S71 | MET | GP: 14 | W: 11 | L: 02 | OTL: 0 | SV%: .908 | GAA: 2.41 | SO: 2
S72 | MET | GP: 21| W: 10| L: 08 | OTL: 1 | SV%: .885 | GAA: 3.80 | SO: 3
Career | MET | GP: 40| W: 25 | L: 11 | OTL: 0 | SV%: .898 | GAA: 3.05 | SO: 5

Accolades
S70 WJC Gold Medal
S71 SMJHL All-Star
S71 Four Star Cup Champion
S71 SMJHL Playoff MVP
S71 SMJHL Goalie of the Year
S71 SMJHL Rookie of the Year
S72 Maine Timber Alternate Captain


Bernard Lodge| #1 | Goaltender | New Orleans Specters

SHL Regular Season Stats:
S73 | NOLA | GP: 29 | W: 13 | L: 06 | OTL: 4 | SV%: .901 | GAA: 3.28 | SO: 2
S74 | NOLA | GP: 32 | W: 20 | L: 05 | OTL: 2 | SV%: .900 | GAA: 3.31 | SO: 2
S75 | NOLA | GP: 45 | W: 17 | L: 24 | OTL: 1 | SV%: .896 | GAA: 3.74 | SO: 0
S76 | NOLA | GP: 47 | W: 26 | L: 14 | OTL: 3 | SV%: .899 | GAA: 3.49 | SO: 1
S77 | NOLA | GP: 53 | W: 29 | L: 19 | OTL: 3 | SV%: .904 | GAA: 3.01 | SO: 4
Career | NOLA | GP: 206 | W: 105 | L: 68 | OTL: 13 | SV%: .899 | GAA: 3.33| SO: 9

SHL Postseason Stats:
S75 | NOLA | GP: 11 | W: 05 | L: 05 | OTL: 1 | SV%: .925 | GAA: 2.68 | SO: 0
S76 | NOLA | GP: 4 | W: 00 | L: 04 | OTL: 0 | SV%: .883 | GAA: 4.03 | SO: 0
S77 | NOLA | GP: 7 | W: 03 | L: 04 | OTL: 0 | SV%: .891 | GAA: 3.77 | SO: 1
Career | NOLA | GP: 22 | W: 08 | L: 13 | OTL: 1 | SV%: .900 | GAA: 3.49 | SO: 1

S73! We made a surprise run at the playoffs with a team that was made up of a huge percentage of rookie players. Even though we got bounced in the first round by The Worse Birds, it was still pretty cool to be in that spot.

Céleste Desjardins || LW || Quebec City Citadelles || Manhattan Rage
Name: Céleste Desjardins
Birthplace: Lewiston, ME
Height: 5'8"
Weight:173 lbs
Number: 13
S73 SMJHL Draft: 4th Round, 47th OA - Quebec City Citadelles
S74 SHL Draft: 1st Round, 2nd OA - Manhattan Rage
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Citadelles Alt. Capt S73-S76
S73: Esa Anrikkanen, Rookie All-Star Team

S75: WJC Bronze Medal

S76: Four Star Cup, Ronan O'Keefe Trophy, WJC Bronze Medal

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SMJHL Regular Season Stats:

264 GP | 140 G | 187 A | 327 P | +128 | 956 S | 132 PIM | 573 H | 19 GWG

SMJHL Postseason Stats:

46 GP | 28 G | 29 A | 57 P | +29 | 172 S | 20 PIM | 114 H | 3 GWG

Int'l Stats: Round Robin

WJC: 48 GP | 26 G | 23 A | 49 P | +6 | 165 S | 20 PIM | 96 H | 3 GWG

Int'l Stats: Bracket

WJC: 8 GP | 5 G | 1 A | 6 P | -4 | 30 S | 0 PIM | 17 H | 0 GWG

First time I experienced the playoffs as a user was the S73 SMJHL playoffs. Lovely experience watching the games with everybody in the discord and praying it went our way. Brought me back to the Blaseball days… even though we didn’t win it was a ton of fun and helped me to stick around (I didn’t need any more convincing though :p)

Honestly I don't remember reaching playoffs the first time. I know we were knocked out in the first round and I've just really hated the playoffs for a long time since we just lost all the time if we even made it. Both in SMJHL and SHL, no fun memories from my first playoffs at all.

Denebor Milasch's first experience in the playoffs with the Carolina Kraken was one to be remembered. Denebor was signed mid season to be a back up and shortly before the first game of the playoffs the coach approached him to tell him that not only was going to get playoff net time, but that he would be the starter going forward for the Kraken. It was a huge moment for Denebor and he was ready to give his all to show the team they made the right call. Unfortunately the Kraken would lose the series but Denebor played extremely well and was a big part of the Kraken taking the top seed to seven games before ultimately falling. While it wasn't the outcome Denebor or the Kraken wanted, it showed that Denebor was a contender and could handle the pressure of playoff hockey.

Thank you @Ragnar  for the Sig!

Previously: Patrick Shepherd (S52 - S64)

My first ever playoff experience was with Carolina, when RART (what a legend) was still active. The Gamechat LR was so intense, everybody was hyped and it truly made me feel in love with the playoffs experience.

RETIRED - Ragnar-Alexandre Ragnarsson-Tremblay - G - S56  Drafted 6th round 61st OA by Carolina SHL Drafted 3rd round 50th by Los Angeles----------------------------------------------------SMJHL Stats | GP | W | L | OTL | GAA | SV% | SO | GRS55 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1.99 | 0.913 | 1 | 70 S56 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2.62 | 0.913 | 1 | 69S57 | 24 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 3.29 | 0.909 | 1 | 69S58 | 59 | 23 | 34 | 1 | 3.27 | 0.908 | 4 | 71S59 | 45 | 23 | 18 | 3 | 3.22 | 0.908 | 0 | 71-------------------------------------------------- SHL Stats | GP | W | L | OTL | GAA | SV% | SO | GR S60 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3.5 | 0.889 | 1 | 62S61 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3.27 | 0.901 | 2 | 65S62 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2.73 | 0.919 | 2 | 70S63 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1.65 | 0.925 | 4 | 72----------------------------------------------------WJC Stats GP | W | L | OTL | GAA | SV% | SO | GRS54 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3.23 | 0.905 | 0 | 65S55 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3.21 | 0.910 | 1 | 70S56 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4.93 | 0.861 | 0 | 56S57 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.75 | 0.876 | 0 | 53S58 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0.84 | 0.964 | 3 | 78S59 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1.66 | 0.912 | 2 | 68---------------------------------------------------- Career MilestonesS54 WJC Bronze MedalistS55 WJC Bronze Medalist (STARTER)S57 WJC Gold MedalistS58 WJC Gold Medalist (STARTER) S58 WJC Top GoalieS58 WJC MVPS59 WJC Silver Medalist (STARTER) S60 SHL All-Rookie Team

David-Arturri Donskoi (DAD) - LW - S65 Drafted 2nd round 23rd OA by Regina---------------------------------------------------- SMJHL Stats | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | F | W | L S64 | 36 | 9 | 10 | 19 | -5 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0[pbl]

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David-Arturri Donskoi
Regina Elk
Hey I'm DAD can I adopt you?

Vincent van Gogh havent managed to get in to playoff till now. But it is just a start, maybe next season I could get there.

My first 3 playoffs in the SHL i made the finals. S19 with the scarecrows then S20 and 21 with the steelhawks. We lost all 3 finals so then it was a meme to call my player cursed. I think i lost maybe 5 finals before finally winning one in S28

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First playoff experience was in my 2nd season with the Falcons. We'd just had a pretty bad season before this one, and this was sort of the comeback year. It was fun to tune in to the streams whenever I could and see the results play out. I believe we eliminated QCC and then got knocked out. Overall, it got me pretty hyped for future playoff seasons in the league.

First time i was in the playoffs was with the Nevada Battleborn. It was such a fun and energetic time hoping to go off and win it all. Emotions at an all time high.

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I couldn’t tell you about my first ploofs experience but I can definitely tell you about my most recent one.
Us Raptors had little hope to make it far in the playoffs last year and were expected to get knocked out by the first round. We managed to bring the fight up to the 7th game of the finals. I couldn’t tell you how proud I was of everyone in our locker room during this campaign. We couldn’t have done it if any single one weren’t in the group at that time.
Here to this year’s playoff!

Xavier Beausoleil

Position RW
Height : 6.5ft
Weight : 236lbs

Well, it was back when we still have things called Play by Plays, where the person who got the PbP was given a boxscore, and had to make a riveting presentation of it via forum posts. You'd sit here and spam f5 to try to learn what happened next.

RIP Dangel. See you on the other side, brother

Honestly, I cannot remember my first playoffs in either the SMJHL or SHL. It must have been with Vancouver back in the mid S30s, but I have no memory of it to be honest!

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