PensBurgh · Apr 15, 2019
Will Game 4 for the Penguins be a cathartic win or quiet ending?
Say what you will about the sport of hockey, but it certainly has a funny sense of irony (as the fans in Tampa can also attest to right now). The Pittsburgh Penguins, three time Stanley Cup winners of the last decade are also now facing their third 0-3 series hole of the last decade.
And unlike being able to dig out of an 0-2 hole on occasion, we all know that just logically an 0-3 hole is a death sentence. More a matter of the inevitability of a loss rather than actually finding a way to win. History tells us out of 189 NHL series with a 3-0 lead, 185 times the team with the huge edge wins. They’ve done it 117 times (61.9%) in Game 4, wrapping up a sweep.