1 The New York Red Bulls earned the eighth and final playoff berth, despite finishing fifth in the Eastern Conference. Or write about sports? D.C. United finished last and Chivas USA finished third in their respective groups and failed to advance. The 2008 American Indoor Football Association season is the league's fourth overall season. They represent the fourth seed in the Western Conference playoff bracket, as only three teams in the Western Conference qualified for the playoffs. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Eventually Chicago Fire and the Kansas City Wizards qualified by beating the Columbus Crew and the Colorado Rapids respectively. Goals For/Against include shootout wins/losses, and may not match actual goal totals shown elsewhere. In the first round aggregate goals over two matches determined the winners. Chivas USA was eliminated by USL-1's Seattle Sounders, the New York Red Bulls were upset by Crystal Palace Baltimore of USL-2, and the Houston Dynamo lost a penalty shootout to the USL-1's Charleston Battery. The 14 teams were split into two seven-team conferences. The three teams from each conference with the most points qualified for the playoffs. The teams played to a 2–2 draw after extra time. Eastern Conference; R Div GP W L OTL GF GA Pts; 1: z – Boston Bruins: NE: 82: 53: 19: 10: 274: 196: 116 2: y – Washington Capitals: SE: 82: 50: 24: 8: 272: 245: 108 3: y – New Jersey Devils: AT: 82: 51: 27: 4: 244: 209: 106 4: Pittsburgh Penguins: AT: 82: 45: 28: 9: 264: 239: 99 5: Philadelphia Flyers: AT: 82: 44: 27: 11: 264: 238: 99 6: Carolina Hurricanes: SE: 82: 45: 30: 7: 239: 226: 97 7: New York Rangers: AT: 82: 43: … Game 1. The format for the 2008 season was as follows: NOTE: If more than two clubs are tied, once a club advances through any step, the process reverts to Tiebreaker 1 among the remaining tied clubs. College Baseball Conference Standings -- 2008 America East Conference Conference Overall; Team W L GB W L; Binghamton : 15 : 8 Data Provided By Western Conference Finals. ... NHL Standings. Houston and D.C. were both victorious in their quarterfinal ties and advanced to the semifinals. The league champions were the Florence Phantoms, who defeated the Wyoming Cavalry in AIFA Championship Bowl II. This is a documentation subpage for Template:2008–09 NHL Western Conference standings. May 18, 2008. Team … For the second straight year, however, both lost their respective semifinals, and were eliminated. Division Standings Table; Eastern Conference W L W/L% GB PS/G PA/G SRS; Atlantic Division; Boston Celtics* 62: 20.756 — 100.9: 93.4: 7.44: Philadelphia 76ers* 41: 41.500: 21.0: 97.4: 97.3: 0.16: New Jersey Nets: 34: 48.415: 28.0: 98.1: 100.5-2.31: Toronto Raptors: 33: 49.402: 29.0: 99.0: 101.9-2.54: New York Knicks: 32: 50.390: 30.0: 105.2: 107.8-2.33: Central Division; Cleveland Cavaliers* 66: 16.805 — 100.3: … Detroit Shock x: 22: 12.647 – 14–3: 8–9: 16–4 Connecticut Sun x: 21: 13.618: 1.0: 13–4: 8–9: 13–7 New York Liberty x: 19: 15.559: 3.0: 11–6: 8–9: 11–9 Indiana Fever x: 17: 17.500: 5.0: 11–6: 6–11: 12–8 Chicago Sky o: 12: 22.353: 10.0: 8–9: 4–13: 10–10 Washington Mystics o: 10: 24.294: 12.0: 6–11: 4–13: 6–14 Atlanta Dream o: 4: 30.118: 18.0: 1–16 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage, 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary Round, List of transfers for the MLS 2008 Season, "MLS attendance down despite Seattle bump", http://www.the90thminute.com/soccer/2009/05/major-league-soccer-attendance-down-ny-kc-and-dallas-averaging-under-10000/, "Luring Liverpool to Toronto would be an all-star coup", MLS performance in the CONCACAF Champions League, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2008_Major_League_Soccer_season&oldid=1007938888, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2021, Articles with dead external links from September 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. 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