What’s the record of NHL playoff teams down 0-2 in a series? Not good.
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Nashville Predators coach John Hynes talks about Game 1 against Carolina Hurricanes
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Win on Wednesday, and the Nashville Predators can feel that they have a leg up on the Carolina Hurricanes heading to a pair of games at Bridgestone Arena.
But a loss? The optimism would be lower.
Historically, NHL teams down 0-2 in a series are 51-330 overall in those series. That’s not promising for Nashville, should it lose on Wednesday after dropping Game 1, 5-2.
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The last time the Predators were down 0-2 was in the Stanley Cup Final in 2017 against Pittsburgh, and Preds fans don’t need a reminder about that series.
Nashville has never come from 0-2 down in a series to win a series in franchise history, either. Incidentally, the Hurricanes are the last team to win a series down 0-2, when they took down the Washington Capitals in seven games in the 2019 first round after dropping the first two. One might remember the Alex Ovechkin KO of Andrei Svechnikov in Game 3 of that series.
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But that’s getting ahead of the current series, with Game 2 set for Wednesday (7 p.m., Bally Sports South and CNBC) in Raleigh. The momentum can swing one way, with Nashville in the series with potentially three of four games at home, or the other, with the Hurricanes up 2-0 heading to Bridgestone Arena.
Either way, Game 2 is very important for the Predators. The numbers bear that out.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: What’s the record of NHL playoff teams down 0-2 in a series? Not good.