NHL: Oilers Hope To Win Stanley Cup After Being Down 0-3

The 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Finals

June  8: Florida Panthers 3, Edmonton Oilers 0
June 10: Florida Panthers 4, Edmonton Oilers 1
June 13: Florida Panthers 4, Edmonton Oilers 3
June 15: Edmonton Oilers 8, Florida Panthers 1
June 18: Edmonton Oilers 5, Florida Panthers 3
June 21: Edmonton Oilers 5, Florida Panthers 1
June 24: EDM @ FLA

With a win tonight in Florida, the Oilers would become the fifth NHL team to win a best-of-7 playoff series after losing the first three games.

1942 Stanley Cup Finals:             Toronto Maple Leafs defeated Detroit Red Wings
1975 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals:      New York Islanders defeated Pittsburgh Penguins
2010 Eastern Conference Semifinals:  Philadelphia Flyers defeated Boston Bruins
2014 Western Conference First Round: Los Angeles Kings defeated San Jose Sharks

Any time a professional sports team loses the first three games of a seven-game series, sportswriters must tell the story of the 2004 Red Sox and their still-hard-to-believe-even-after-twenty-years-that-it-really-happened comeback against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series. (Several books were written about that glorious 2004 postseason, including this one.) It's both the only time in major league history a team turned 0-3 to 4-3 and a team choked 3-0 to 3-4.

The Oilers are the 211th NHL team to lose the first three games of a seven-game series. Only four of the previous 210 teams then won four consecutive games (1.9%). Five other NHL teams won three games and tied the series, but then lost Game 7.

None of the 157 NBA teams facing an 0-3 deficit has rallied and won the series, and only four teams (2.5%) got to a seventh game, the last being the 2023 Celtics.

0-3 to 4-3

MLB:    1 of  39 teams (2.6%)
NHL:    4 of 210 teams (1.9%)
NBA:    0 of 157 teams (0.0%)
Total:  5 of 406 teams (1.2%)