Off Wing Opinion

Here are the candidates. Was it:

The 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, who won the Stanley Cup Finals after trailing the Detroit Red Wings 3-0?

Or was it the 1975 New York Islanders, who defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in seven games in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs after trailing 3-0?

Or perhaps it was the most recent entry, the 2004 Boston Red Sox, who defeated the New York Yankees in the ALCS in seven games after trailing 3-0?

Believe it or not, some folks have actually broken down the numbers in an attempt to determine which comeback was the greatest of all time. It's an outfit called WhoWins, and they base their research on a database that contains the outcomes of every seven-game playoff series in the history of North American Sports.

For the answer to this post's question, click here. And for my readers in Quebec, here's the French language version.

I could look at this kind of stuff all day. Don't say I didn't warn you. Have fun.

This entry was posted on Friday, December 2nd, 2005 at 12:00 pm by Eric McErlain and is filed under Baseball, Gambling, Hockey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.