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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This interests me. Last year 19 teams started after the ASB on the road, and 12 teams played on home ice.
· Road teams were 7–8–4 (0.473), and were outscored by the home team 61–63 (-2).
· Home teams were 7–4–1 (0.625) and outscored the road team 31–28 (+3).
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Not going to lie those numbers kind of surprise me. After the Christmas break this year there were 11 games. Home teams were 4-4-3, Visitors 7-3-1. Visitors out scored the home teams 41-33.
I remember Fleury on the radio broadcast before the Flames game against Edmonton, saying he would love to play in that first game on the road as the home team could still be in holiday mode.
Looking at holiday break +1 it was all the home team, as they went 8-0-1. Interesting.