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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Yes. It's better to win ANY game in the series than not to. It would be utterly idiotic to try to pass that off as analysis. I'm arguing that game 1 isn't especially important compared to, say, game 2. And the real world results bear that out. Yet people always talk about the importance of the first game as if it's somehow special. It is not.
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Some historical facts from all past best of 5 series.(from Doc Emrick)
If you win 1st game:
82 % chance of winning series.
If you win first two games:
96 % chance of winning series.