April 18, 1942 – It was a miraculous comeback in the Stanley Cup Finals! The Toronto Maple Leafs were in deep trouble as they dropped the first three games of the Championship series with the Detroit Red Wings. The leafs fought their way back and on this day at their home venue of Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, the Comeback Kids handed Detroit a fourth straight loss to win game 7, by the score of 3-1 for a 4-3 series win. Over 16,200 spectators watched Toronto become the first NHL team to ever bounce back from such a deficit in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Since then it has occurred 3 additional times in NHL postseason play. The New York Islanders came back from being 3-0 in the 1975 Quarter-Finals against Pittsburgh, The Philadelphia Flyers shocked the Boston Bruins in 2010’s Eastern Conference -Semi-Finals, and the LA Kings came all the way back to win four straight against the San Jose Sharks in the 2012 NHL Western Conference Quarter-Finals.
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