Heading into Game 5 on Friday night, the Calgary Flames are trailing their first round playoff series 3-1 to the Colorado Avalanche. Battling back from a 3-1 deficit certainly isn’t the easiest thing to do.
In the history of National Hockey League best-of-seven series (heading into this season), 243 series saw a team go down 3-1. In just 24 of them (9.9%), the team down 3-1 battled back to win the series. Rallying back from a 3-1 deficit hasn’t happened in the NHL since the second round of 2015.
It’s also never happened the previous seven times the Flames got themselves down 3-1 in a series.