How historic would an Edmonton Oilers’ comeback Stanley Cup victory have been? One analyst says the team had just a 3.3% chance of winning after Game 3.
The Edmonton Oilers seemed dead in the water after losing their first three games of the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers . Eric Sorensen looks at how difficult it would have been for the Oilers to come back and win the cup., they would have secured their names in history not just for being champions but also for having achieved an incredibly rare feat: winning a championship after being down by three games in the final round of a best-of-seven series.
“There just aren’t a lot of teams that are down 3-0 that have either the innate talent to bounce back from that or the mental fortitude especially to be able to win those consecutive games,” sports analyst Neil Paine told Global News.Paine closely watches and calculates the statistics of games, and said the numbers reveal something even more impressive about an Oilers’ victory on Monday night, had it happened.
But the Oilers’ score is “certainly the lowest that we’ve seen in the Stanley Cup Finals,” Paine said. Lowe said looking at the first three games, the Oilers made mistakes that gave the Panthers the opportunity to create an offense that led to more goals.
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