Comeback Victory vs Calgary Flames
The single greatest aspect of competition that most embodies the spirit of what makes sport extraordinary.
A comeback (or come-from-behind) is an occurrence of an athlete or sports team engaged in a competition overcoming a disadvantage in points, position, or series. It has been described as "the single greatest aspect of competition that most embodies the spirit of what makes sport extraordinary".
Quick Facts
- Key figures
- Sergei Bobrovsky
Lore & Background
In some sports, such as tennis or baseball, a comeback is possible until the very last point, regardless of what the deficit might be. One study indicated that in the sports of basketball, football and ice hockey, the team leading in points at the beginning of the final period of play wins the game 80% of the time, with the trailing team overcoming this disadvantage 20% of the time. Another determined that the home team advantage has a significant impact on the probability of a team engineering a late comeback, noting that for professional basketball teams, "the home team is more than three times as likely to make a fourth-quarter comeback than is the visiting team (33.3% versus 10.5%)".
Reader's Guide
The term "comeback" can also refer to performers returning to (or attempting to return to) their former level of competition after an adverse event that seems to threaten their careers and/or a lengthy period of absence, whether that hiatus was caused by voluntary retirement, injury, other medical reason and/or some other circumstance(s). Use of the term in this context can also be found in fields such as politics and the entertainment industry, in addition to sports.
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