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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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Why are the number of home teams (12) and road teams (19) so different? That must mean a bunch of the road teams had a longer break and were playing against a team who had already played a game. Maybe a back to back even. It might kind of skew the results.