It’s a small number, just 12.8 percent, but it’s a number that Barry Trotz has already helped increase and hopes to do so again.
The Islanders coach knows exactly how difficult it is for a team to come back from a 2-0 hole in a best-of-seven series, just 52 teams out of 405 in that position have done so in the history of the NHL. But Trotz was behind the bench for one of those 52, just over a year ago when his Capitals lost the first two games of the first round to the Blue Jackets but ended up coming back to win the series — and then the Stanley Cup.