Crucial to Valour's success in this stretch was the play of Haitian defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste.

[1] After Jean-Baptiste was injured and the league left the bubble, Valour's season took a sharp downward turn, winning only one match in 10 games.

This led to club's only ever head coach, Rob Gale, being fired, and he was replaced with Marc Dos Santos.

Under Dos Santos, the team managed to get some better results, and ahead of the last game of the season against bottom of the table FC Edmonton, a playoff spot was within their grasp.

[2] The season ended in heartbreak: Edmonton went up three goals to nil, seemingly ending Valour's playoff chances, but in the final fifteen minutes Mosed Dyer scored twice and then Daryl Fordyce scored to equalize things.