Bladerunner
Registered User
Therefore the trailing team has comeback to win the series 13.6% of the time.All time in the NHL, teams going up 2-0 are 311-49 (.864) in the series.
The trailing team has to win 4 straight (like Caps vs CBJ) or at minimum 4 of the next 5 to win.
Assuming coin flips (each team has a 50% chance to win a game), the 0-2 trailing team will win a series 18.75% of the time. However the team that gets behind 0-2 is usually (not always) the inferior team.
Let's give the trailing team a 45% chance to win any game. Now the chance to win the series drops to 13.1% - very close to the empirical 13.6%
Would like to know the 2-0 playoff stats for the past 10 or 20 years.