Only four teams in NHL history have come back from a 3-0 series deficit. With each win Dallas earns to pull closer to that, the pressure will build on the Golden Knights to close it out. That’s where Alec Martinez comes in. ✍️ JesseGranger_
“They’re not fun when you’re on the other side,” Pavelski said Thursday night. “There was one where we were up 3-0 on. Thinking back to that, you saw just how focused that team got. All of the pucks went in. All of the shots were directed to the net. There was a heightened sense of urgency. The one against L.A., you never think it can happen. You don’t want to be in those situations, but when you’re on the other side, you understand that it can happen. It’s happened before.
On Friday morning, Martinez said he wasn’t sure how much the experience of overcoming a 3-0 deficit might benefit him or the Golden Knights in this situation, but he does feel that many other experiences could help. “I think just experience in general,” he said. “I would probably rely on the experience of being up 3-0 before and not closing a team out in that Game 4.”
Martinez prefers to draw from his experience in this exact situation, and it’s no surprise considering the greatest moment of his hockey life came under similar circumstances. In the same season as the 3-0 comeback, the Kings went on to face theJust like in the current series with Dallas, Martinez’s team won the first two games in overtime. The Kings failed to close the series out in Game 4 at Madison Square Garden, forcing Game 5 in Los Angeles.
It was the biggest play of Martinez’s career, but it wasn’t his only similar experience to draw from. In 2012, the first playoff run of his NHL career, the Kings took a 3-0 lead in each of their four of their playoff series. Only once did they complete the sweep, in the second round vs.
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