Grand Rapids Griffins players practice at the Van Andel Arena Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (Cory Morse | MLive.com)

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – In the history of the Calder Cup Finals, a team with a 2-0 lead has gone on to win the series 36 of 39 times, giving the Grand Rapids Griffins reason to be encouraged with three games possible at home this week.

The team practiced Tuesday at Van Andel Arena for the first time since Sunday’s 6-4 win in Syracuse, following a 12-hour bus ride home and a day off Monday.

"I thought we didn’t practice well that first day (in Syracuse), but I thought we had a pretty good practice today,” coach Jeff Blashill said. “We want to have great habits every single day. It doesn’t always translate into how you play the next night, but I’m confident we’ll come out and put our best foot forward.”

The next two games will be 7 p.m. Wednesday and Friday at Van Andel Arena. Game 5, if necessary, will be 7 p.m. Saturday. Games 6 and 7 would be played in Syracuse on June 18, 20.

Syracuse, which had won 11 of 12 before the finals, hope to be one of 24 teams that have won a best-of-seven series after trailing 0-2, the last being Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in 2011. But in the finals, it happened only in 2010.

Eight teams have won the series after losing the first two games at home.

Here is the list of teams who have climbed back from 0-2 deficits:

2011 – WBS def. Norfolk, 4-2

2010 – Hershey def. Texas, 4-2 (Finals)

2008 – Toronto def. Syracuse, 4-3

2006 – WBS def. Bridgeport, 4-3

1997 – Hershey def. Springfield, 4-3

1994 – Adirondack def. Springfield, 4-2

1989 – Adirondack def. Hershey, 4-3 (trailed 0-3)

1960 – Rochester def. Cleveland, 4-3 (trailed 0-3)

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