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New Jersey Devils: Game 5 provides series-altering momentum opportunity

The New Jersey Devils will need to make history this spring or their season will be history.

An NHL team has only come back to win a series when trialing 3-1 on 28 occasions in the history of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and one of which was the 1999-2000 Devils during the Eastern Conference Finals against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Teams that take a 3-1 lead in a best-of-seven #StanleyCup Playoffs series hold an all-time series record of 269-28 (90.6%). #NHLStats @EliasSports

— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) April 19, 2018

Here are three keys for New Jersey to get back in the series:

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