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• NHL Playoff Sweeps Without Surrendering Lead

  
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  When a team wins the first four games of a playoff series they are said to have swept their opponent. When the victor does so without ever relinquishing the lead in any of the four games, they have completed the rare feat of a perfect sweep.A perfect sweep, often referred to as an annihilation, has happened only 16 ...
  6 days ago

• NHL Playoff Comebacks Trailing 3-1

  
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  Three teams (Chicago, Boston, Ottawa) have taken a commanding 3-1 series lead against their respective opponents (Minnesota, Toronto, Montreal) in the opening round best-of-seven series of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs.  While a 3-1 lead is always a good thing, its not quite a sure thing.Teams have fallen behind 3-1 ...
  2 weeks ago

• NHL Stanley Cup Playoff Sweeps

  
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  When a team eliminates their opponent using the minimum number of games without sustaining a single loss in a multi-game series they are said to have swept the other team. In the Stanley Cup Playoffs that means winning the first four games of a best-of-seven series.Of the NHLs 591 best-of-seven playoff series since ...
  2 weeks ago

• NHL Playoff Comebacks Trailing 3-0

  
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  Tonight the San Jose Sharks took a commanding 3-0 series lead against their 2011 Conference Final foe Vancouver Canucks. Last year five playoff teams found themselves in Vancouvers predicament (Pittsburgh, Vancouver, St. Louis, Phoenix, New Jersey). None survived.In fact, only 3 times in 172 tries (1.7%) has a ...
  2 weeks ago

• NHL Stanley Cup Playoff First Round Upsets

  
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  If you think 7th and 8th seeded teams dont have a fighting chance against 1st and 2nd seeded division winners in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, youd be wrong. Underdogs are no stranger to early round upsets.Since the introduction of the revised conference playoff format in 1994, opening round upsets ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2013 NHL Playoff Projections - 82 Games Played

  
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  When it comes to the NHL playoffs, a general rule of thumb is to expect the unexpected. While division winners typically hoist the Stanley Cup, top-seeded teams are no stranger to first round playoff upsets.Acknowledging that the best predictor of future behavior is typically past performance, the chart below tracks ...
  3 weeks ago

• NHL Playoff Seeding and Stanley Cup Wins

  
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  Revisions to the playoff seeding system prior to the 1994 regular season awarded division winners with the top three spots in each conference, saving the final five positions for the next highest finishing teams. In the 18 seasons since, a division champion has made it to the Stanley Cup Finals every year but one, ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2013 NHL Draft Lottery Results

  
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  Tonight Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly presented the NHL Draft lottery results on TSN, with the top overall pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, to be held on June 30, 2013 in Newark, being awarded to the Colorado Avalanche.The actual lottery was conducted 30 minutes earlier at NHL Headquarters in New York City, with ...
  3 weeks ago

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