Does home-ice advantage matter in the Stanley Cup playoffs?
I asked Todd Marchant this after the Vancouver win.
"Well," he said, "First of all, you get matchups – you get the last change, so that’s a crucial part of the game. Everything being at home is familiar to you – the routine is the same, you're not having to worry about different travel, stuff like that. That part of it is different, but realistically it’s all the same."
So there.
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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