The National Ringette League playoffs are the knockout match, round robin, and tournament for determining the champion for National Ringette League (NRL).
The National Ringette League (NRL) playoffs began during the league's second season which was the 2005-06 season. In 2008, the NRL playoffs replaced the national championships for the Under-19 years and Open divisions at the Canadian Ringette Championships and have been conducted in this manner since.[1]
The 2010–11 season introduced the new "NRL Championship Tournament" replacing the Championship qualifying rounds and takes place in just one city with the intention of allowing the league to create a media event and to hold attention. The top 10 teams in the league's regular season participate in the championship tournament crowning the team champion of the league. Starting in the 2011–12 season, 8 teams played a full round robin known as the "Elite Eight" to determine the champion.
The current format consists of three parts: Knockout match, Elite Eight, and Tournament.
| width=15% | Season | Development |
| 2005-06 | NRL playoffs began during the league's second season | |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The NRL playoffs replaced the national championships for the Under-19 years and Open divisions at the Canadian Ringette Championships and have been conducted in this manner ever since. | |
| 2010-11 | The playoffs were held in just one city. | |
| 2011-12 | The "Elite Eight" (a round-robin tournament) and the new "Championship Tournament" started. The NRL Championship Tournament replaced the Championship qualifying rounds. | |
| 2015-16 | The number of teams in the Western conference became 4, and the Knockout stage consisted of five Eastern conference teams and three Western conference teams. | |
| 2016-17 | The number of Western Conference teams became 5, but the number of teams advancing to the Elite Eight remained the same. |
| width=15% | Year | width=200px | Champion | width=75px | Result | width=200px | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Edmonton WAM! | 4-2 | Cambridge Turbos | |||
| 2012 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | LMRL Thunder | 7-2 | Montréal Mission | |||
| 2013 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Calgary RATH | 6-5 | Prairie Fire | |||
| 2014 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Ottawa Ice | 7-4 | Cambridge Turbos | |||
| 2015 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Cambridge Turbos | 6-2 | Richmond Hill Lighting | |||
| 2016 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Cambridge Turbos | 5-3 | Gloucester Devils | |||
| 2017 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Cambridge Turbos | 6-5 | Atlantic Attack | |||
| 2018 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Atlantic Attack | 5-3 | Edmonton WAM! | |||
| 2019 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Calgary RATH | 5-3 | Atlantic Attack | |||
| 2022 | align=left style="background:#f7f6a8; | Calgary RATH | - | Edmonton WAM |
| Team | Appearance | Knockout stage | Elite Eight[2] [3] | Semifinal | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Attack | 7 | 4 | 5(3) | 0 | 2(2) | |
| BC Thunder[4] | 4 | 2 | 2(2) | 1 | 1(0) | |
| Edmonton 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[5] | 1 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 0(0) | |
| Montréal Mission | 8 | 3 | 7(5) | 0 | 1(1) | |
| Ottawa Ice | 8 | 8 | 6(0) | 3 | 1(0) | |
| Prairie Fire | 3 | 0 | 3(3) | 0 | 1(1) | |
| Quebec City Cyclones[6] | 3 | 3 | 1(0) | 0 | 0(0) | |
| Richmond Hill Lighting | 8 | 8 | 7(0) | 1 | 1(0) | |
| 5 | 5 | 0(0) | 0 | 0(0) | ||
| Waterloo Wildfire | 6 | 6 | 3(0) | 1 | 0(0) | |
| Whitby Wild | 1 | 1 | 0(0) | 0 | 0(0) |
| 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 | |
| Montréal 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 |
| Team | GP | W | L[7] | % | Most recent appearances | Most recent titles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary RATH | 2 | 2019 | |||||
| Atlantic Attack | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 | |||
| BC Thunder[8] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | |||
| Cambridge Turbos | 5 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2017 | ||
| Calgary RATH | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 2013 | ||
| Edmonton WAM! | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 | 2011 | ||
| Gloucester Devils | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | Never | ||
| Montréal Mission | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | Never | ||
| Ottawa Ice | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | |||
| Prairie Fire | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | Never | ||
| Richmond Hill Lighting | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2015 | Never |