Editing VHL 2024 (section)

=== Quarter-finals ===

==== Boston Spirits (1) vs. Acadia Rage (8) ====
The Spirits entered the series as the heavy favorites, as the senior-seeds and defending champions who had recently secured their third consecutive Earle Trophy. They won the first game rather comfortably, although a last-minute goal from Gilles Dufour made the final score 3–2. In game two, the Acadia Rage managed a massive upset 4–0 victory as the visitors, upending the entire series as they travelled home for the next two games. In game three, their first home game, they took another victory, holding Boston off 3–2. The Rage failed, however, to secure the series in front of their home crowd, losing game four 4–1 to the visitors. With the decisive game five in Boston, the Spirits were once again favored to head to the semi-finals, but the Rage managed another massive upset, this time winning 3–1.

==== EH Bas-Canada (4) vs. Providence Doves (5) ====
Bas-Canada started the series as the senior-seed, and were slightly favored to win. Bas-Canada had had a rough start to the regular season, but had improved to ultimately secure qualification early on and finish a strong fourth. The Doves had experienced somewhat the opposite, starting strong but waning slightly by the end of the season. In the first game at home, Bas-Canada took a close 3–2 at home, which some pundits took be a sign of the close series to come. The home side shut those conversations down after game two, which they won in dominant 5–0 fashion. Now the only [2–0] team in the playoffs, Bas-Canada travelled to Providence with a chance to be the first team to secure their spot in the semi-finals. They managed just that, with the [[Benoît Brisbois]]-led team holding the Doves to just a single goal, against their three, as the visitors. 

==== Halifax Hockey Club (2) vs. Salem Loggers (7) ====
Halifax entered this series as the heavy favorites, with a late-season surge in performance that saw them win six consecutive games. It thus came as a surprise when [[Joseph Courtney]]'s visiting side took a 3–1 victory over them. Halifax responded with a 3–1 victory of their own, making the series [1–1] heading to the Naumkeag Arena. Halifax won game three with a comfortable 3–1, and continued that performance into game four, securing a spot in the semi-finals with a 2–1 victory.

==== Mainers (3) vs. Newfoundland Sailors (6) ====
The Mainers entered this matchup as strong favorites, as the team, led by a two-time reigning Golden Puck winner [[Carlos Ortega]], had enjoyed a consistently nearly league-topping regular season, while the Sailors' performance had noticeably dropped off in the last few months. While the Sailors had held a three-point lead as late as matchday 19, they had since fallen down to sixth. Despite this, some pundits pointed to the Mainers' demoralizing two losses in the final two matchdays, which saw them lose what could've been their first Earle Trophy. Additionally, this matchup was the most closely followed of the four quarter-finals, as both the Mainers and the Sailors (along with the Spirits, on the other side of the bracket) were competing to sign Carlos Ortega, whose contract with the Mainers was up at the end of this season.

The Sailors took a massive upset victory in the first game, winning 5–1 as the visitors and featuring a spectacular hat-trick from Sailors captain [[Danilo Lorenz]]. Commentator [[Walter Cobb]] described the Mainers' loss—their third in a row, if taking the two final matchdays of the league into account—as "utterly crushing," a sentiment echoed by a frustrated Dominique Bergeron, manager of the Mainers. His side responded convincingly, however, with their own dominant 6–2 victory in front of their home crowd, featuring four goals from Ortega. With the next two games at the Kaufman Arena, the Sailors had an opportunity to swing the series in their favor. They did just that with a 3–2 win in their first game at home. Ahead of the fourth game, pundits described the Mainers as "completely shattered," and Cobb noted that Ortega was "the only thing keeping them going." In the fourth game, Sailors goaltender Stefán Kaczmarek held Ortega and the Mainers to a shutout, while the Lorenz-led home side found the back of the net three times to secure their entry into the semi-finals. The Sailors' series upset against the Mainers was widely celebrated in Newfoundland, and Cobb said that Lorenz had quelled "any doubt that he's not still the greatest player in the VHL."