No hockey team has ever won Game 4 of a Stanley Cup Final to go up three-games-to-one and not won the series. That’s obviously not good news for the Golden Knights, who are on the wrong end of that statistic after losing Game 4 to the Washington Capitals 6-2 on Monday.
But the Knights know a thing or two about being long shots. They were 500-1 underdogs at one point to win the Cup, and made it all the way here, so nothing is impossible.
Losing a 3-1 lead isn’t as uncommon as one might think. Among the three major sports that play in series, it has happened 52 times since 1925, or about once every other year.