Game seven

The game is generally played at the site of the team holding the home advantage across the series.

[citation needed] Some playoff rounds (such as MLB's current Division Series) are played in a best-of-five format, such that game five has similar qualities to those described above, though the suspense and drama have less time to build in a shorter series.

The game sevens where Liiga awarded gold medals and the Kanada-malja include: In the National Hockey League's (NHL) Stanley Cup playoffs, game seven can occur in all playoff series.

[75] The Stanley Cup became the NHL's de facto championship trophy in 1926, and the league instituted the best-of-seven series starting in the 1938–39 season.

In only ten instances (five in major North American sports leagues) has a team been able to come back from being down 0–3 to win a series: Mike Richards and Jeff Carter are the only players to have been a part of two comebacks from being down 0–3, having played for both the 2009–10 Philadelphia Flyers and the 2013–14 Los Angeles Kings.

[95] This table summarizes the above results for the three major sports leagues in North America that play seven-game series:

Chris Carpenter pitches to Mike Napoli in the 2nd inning of Game 7 of the 2011 World Series .
Syl Apps of the Toronto Maple Leafs after Game seven of the 1942 Stanley Cup Finals
Inside the Toyota Center before tip off of Game seven of the 2018 NBA Western Conference Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets
The 2004 Boston Red Sox , seen here at the White House , are one of just two team to force a game seven after being down 3–0, and the only team to win a game 7 after being down 3–0. [ 96 ]