The Golden Knights found themselves in a three-goal hole late in the 1st period against the Blues. It felt like the sky was falling until Vegas stormed back to win the game 5-4 in overtime.
Three nights later, once again, Vegas saw 3-0 on the scoreboard, this time against Pittsburgh. Back-to-back games falling behind by three felt improbable, yet once again they stormed back only to come up a bit short.
A couple nights later, it happened again! 3-0 turned to 4-0 against the LA Kings and it’s officially reached epidemic levels.
Then, Saturday. 1-0 in the 1st. 2-0 in the 2nd, and what do you know in the 3rd, 3-0 again for the fourth straight game.
All we could do was shout things that Jackie Chiles would say. “That’s deplorable, unfathomable, improbable!”
Here at SinBin.vegas, our first thought was, this has to be historic. 3-0, four games in a row, there’s no way anyone else has done this in a decade. Wrong!
In fact, a team currently residing in 1st place in the Pacific Division did it just two months ago.
The Calgary Flames fell behind 3-0 against the Coyotes, Golden Knights, Avalanche, and Blue in four straight games from November 16th to the 21st.
Falling behind 3-0 in a game isn’t nearly as rare as it would seem. Every single team in the NHL has done it at least once, and 24 of the 31 teams have done it at least three times this season.
There have been 706 games played thus far this season and in 143 of them a team has jumped out to a 3-0 lead. That’s 20% or one in every five games!
In only nine of the 143, the trailing team came back to win as the Golden Knights did against St. Louis.
It’s not just bad teams this happens to either. Calgary has fallen behind 3-0 on 10 separate occasions this year. Washington has seen it happen to them seven times, Carolina seven, Dallas six, and Winnipeg, Philadelphia, and the New York Islanders each five.
Vegas has found themselves in the now familiar 3-0 hole six times. The only difference for the Golden Knights is that they have been doing it at home. Five of the six occurrences have happened at T-Mobile Arena. Of the 143 total, only 58 happened to the home team for 41%.
Aside from the Flames and Golden Knights, no other team has fallen behind 3-0 more than twice in a row. There are 15 times in which teams have done it in back-to-back games however.
I’m not really sure what any of this means other than that Jason and I have way too much time on our hands looking this up. Maybe you’ll sleep easier knowing the Flames stink too? Or you can just go back to more Jackie Chiles-isms…
It’s outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
Western Conference
STL – 4 times
10/26 – at BOS
12/4 – at PIT
12/14 – CHI*
1/2 – at COL
DAL – 6 times 2 Back to Backs
10/12 – WSH
10/14 – at BUF
10/26 – at PIT
10/29 – MIN*
11/26 – at CHI
12/3 – at WPG
COL – 1 Time
11/2 – at ARI
WPG – 5 times, 1 Back to Back
10/4 – at NJD*
10/6 – at NYI
11/12 – COL
11/21 – at DAL
12/12 – at DET
NSH – 4 times
10/10 – WSH*
11/16 – CHI
11/30 – at FLA
12/28 – at PIT
MIN – 5 times
10/17 – at MTL
10/24 – at NSH
11/7 – at SJS
12/21 – WPG
12/31 – TOR
CHI – 8 times, 1 Back to Back
10/26 – at BOS
12/4 – at PIT
12/14 – CHI*
1/2 – at COL
CGY – 10 times, 3 B2B
10/8 – LAK
10/19 – at LAK
11/16 – at ARI
11/17 – at VGK
11/19 – COL
11/21 – at STL
12/14 – CAR
12/23 – at MIN
12/29 – VAN
12/31 – CHI
ARI – 4 times, 1 B2B
10/30 – MTL
12/10 – CGY
1/9 – at TBL
1/10 – at CAR
EDM – 4 times
10/27 – FLA
11/12 – at SJS
11/21 – at LAK
12/10 – CAR
VAN – 1 time
10/5 – at CGY
SJS – 3 times
10/4 – VGK
11/2 – VAN
12/7 – at TBL
LAK – 8 times
10/9 – at VAN
10/17 – BUF
10/27 – at CHI
11/9 – at MTL
11/18 – at ARI
11/25 – SJS
11/29 – at SJS
12/23 – STL
ANA – 4 times
10/22 – at NSH
11/18 – at WSH
11/29 – WPG
1/9 – DAL
Eastern Conference
BOS – 1 time
12/05 vs Chicago
TBL – 2 times
10/10 @ Florida
11/30 vs Carolina
TOR – 3 times
11/10 @ Chicago
11/16 @ Pittsburgh
01/06 vs Edmonton
FLA – 8 times
10/08 vs Carolina
10/28 @ Vancouver
11/12 @ Boston (won game)*
11/21 vs Anaheim (won game in OT)*
11/24 vs Buffalo
12/14 vs Boston
12/23 @ Tampa
01/04 @ Buffalo
BUF – 7 times/ 2 Back-to-Backs
10/24 @ NYR
11/01 @ Washington
11/17 @ Chicago
11/19 vs Minnesota
12/17 @ Toronto
12/19 @ Philadelphia
12/27 vs Boston
MTL – 2 times
11/02 @ Dallas
12/05 vs Colorado
DET – 6 times/1 Back to Back
11/02 @ Florida
11/06 @ NYR
11/27 vs Toronto
12/15 vs LA
12/21 @ Toronto
12/22 vs Arizona
WSH – 7 times
10/14 vs Colorado
11/11 vs Arizona
11/15 vs Montreal
11/20 @ NYR
12/16 @ Columbus
12/23 @ Boston
01/11 vs New Jersey
PIT – 3 times/ 1 Back to Back
10/19 vs Vegas
11/04 @ Boston
11/07 @ NYI (Won 4-3 in OT)*
NYI – 5 times
11/16 @ Philadelphia (Won 4-3 in SO)*
11/25 @ Anaheim
12/03 @ Montreal
12/07 @ Dallas
01/04 @ Toronto
CAR – 7 times/ 2 Back to Backs
10/18 @ Anaheim
11/09 @ Ottawa
11/27 @ NYR
11/29 vs Nashville
12/21 vs Florida
12/23 @ Toronto
01/05 vs Tampa
PHI – 5 times
10/29 @ Pittsburgh
12/11 @ Colorado
12/28 @ San Jose
12/31 @ LA
01/04 @ Vegas
CBJ – 3 times
10/30 vs Edmonton
11/02 vs Calgary
12/07 @ Florida
NYR – 5 times
10/20 vs Vancouver
11/14 @ Tampa
11/23 @ Montreal (Won 6-5)*
12/02 vs Vegas
12/31 @ Edmonton
NJD – 6 times, 1 Back to Back
10/9 – at PHI
10/12 – at BOS
11/8 – at EDM
11/30 – NYR
12/2 – at BUF
1/4 – COL
Mike G
Always enjoy when you “dig” in to things Ken. My concerns aren’t necessarily the 3-0 deficits but more about that they came at home and against a bottom feeder on a back to back night and against a team basically starting it’s AHL roster. I’m very concerned about their woe’s at T Mobile. I have this feeling that you will start seeing massive visiting team crowds again as local ticket holders decide to sell off tickets rather than pay premium prices to watch your team sleepwalk through a game. I honestly think this homestand and especially those last 2 losses cost them any chance of winning the division this year
DOC Williams
Yes! Too much time, spent on, yet again, stats!!!!! 🙂 How about using some of that time writing down meaningful questions to ask Gallant? Still love ya Ken.
Ken Boehlke
Give me a list of questions you want asked to him.
DOC Williams
Well Ken ….. Here’s one suggestion of a questions that most of us would like answered: WHY !!!!! When Gallant says we just didn’t skate tonight or We were like playing in sand or We didn’t get off to a good start (again) etc…. Ask him WHY is that coach. WHY are these things REPEATEDLY happening. WHY >>> WHY >>> WHY !!!!! OR WHAT are YOU going to do about it!!!!!!!!! We are just tired of his standard answers, with no one calling him out about it!!! (Oh, regarding the ridiculous ticket prices. Knights just announced a 13% INCREASE for next season).
STEPHANIE
I feel the Knights have priced the original sth out of the arena .the ones that got them the hockey team .even friends that have six fig.jobs are feeling the pinch and pretty soon will be replaced by corporate companies buying their tickets .That’s disturbing to me .what happened to caring about the real fans
Tim
Ken you usually have good points this article isn’t one of them. I could care less what teams fell into the same deep hole I’m only concerned about us trying to climb out of that deep dark hole. The fact is their paid professionals and theirs always an excuse no sense visiting all the excuses were all aware of the. =Here’s a fact I’ve lived in Las Vegas since my army discharge in 1965 and I’ve seen Vegas burnout with losers. When Tark was here the place was packed since 1991 he’s been gone check out basketball attendees. College football started here in 1968 and has never done well. When they first started the talk was oh we’ll be in the Pack 10 in 5 years well 50 years later there still a bottom feeder in the Mountain West. George and Kelly better wise up these full houses with outrageous pricing will go the way of the dinosaur.
I’m only interested in seeing the team play hard win or lose but this years version of the Knights are like children always with an excuse. My wife and I start watching all the games we get down two or three who in there right mind are going to continue watching the onslaught. Time to flip the channel to a movie because we don’t have the fire power to come back.
hdbiker7851
Tim – spoken like a true military man – no BS – their well paid professionals just do what you are being paid to do – play hard win or lose no excuses.
More often than not the less said the better.
DOC Williams
Well Ken ….. Here’s one suggestion of a questions that most of us would like answered: WHY !!!!! When Gallant says we just didn’t skate tonight or We were like playing in sand or We didn’t get off to a good start (again) etc…. Ask him WHY is that coach. WHY are these things REPEATEDLY happening. WHY >>> WHY >>> WHY !!!!! OR WHAT are YOU going to do about it!!!!!!!!! We are just tired of his standard answers, with no one calling him out about it!!! (Oh, regarding the ridiculous ticket prices. Knights just announced a 13% INCREASE for next season).
DOC Williams
Right or wrong ….. Gallant is gone. Very shocking!!! But at least, no more BS answers at pressers hopefully!!!! Replaced by the guy Gallant called an idiot (or something like that), last year. Ironic indeed!