There was a lot of unlikeliness that came to be on Friday night when the Toronto Maple Leafs overcame a three goal deficit in the final 3:34 of the game. A comeback of that magnitude is already very unlikely, just look at these stats, but even just the fact that it’s the Leafs somehow makes it seem even more unlikely.
They staved off multiple empty net attempts and somehow beat a goaltender three times that had stoned them cold for the last game and a half. Then they won it in overtime.
While all that is super, super, super unlikely, the most unlikely stat of all may have begun 27 years earlier.
WHAT?! Mike Foligno was the last game winning goal scorer way back in 1993, and then it’s his son that ends up in the penalty box for the Leafs to snap that streak?!
According to Money Puck, the Maple Leafs comeback was a 1/500 chance. We’re thinking this stat is even smaller odds than that.
(H/T Down Goes Brown)
