Spring 2020 Day 47:

Results from Monday 28 September.

NHL

Tampa Bay Lightning win at Dallas Stars 2-goals-nil

NBA

No game Monday

Spring 2020 Day 48:

Results from Tuesday 29 September.

No games. The series page for the 2020 NBA Finals is linked through the column at left.

Shutout Shut Down:

With their 2-goals-nil victory in 2020 NHL Finals Game 6, the Tampa Bay Lightning become the first NHL team to win the NHL championship by shutout since 2017, when the Pittsburgh Penguins accomplished the feat against the Nashville Predators.

Reigning Series Comeback and Encore:

On Tuesday 01 September, the Denver Nuggets became the first NBA team to surmount a 3-games-1 deficit for a 4-games-3 victory in a best-of-7 NBA playoff series since the Cleveland Cavaliers did so to win the 2016 NBA Finals. In the history of best-of-7 NBA playoff series beginning in 1947, teams such as Denver which trailed 3-games-1 had a series record of only 11-242 (.043); so it is that Denver achieves a grade-A series comeback (and the best to date in best-of-7 Spring 2020 NBA/NHL playoffs). ENCORE: Denver then rallies from a 3-games-1 deficit to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers and advance to the NBA Semifinals for the first time since 2009. The Nuggets join the 1985 Kansas City Royals as the only MLB/NBA/NHL teams to rally from more than one 3-games-1 deficit in the same playoff season.

Reigning In-Game Comeback:

On Sunday 13 September, the Denver Nuggets trailed the pseudo-visiting Los Angeles Clippers by 16 points as late as after two quarters in Game 6 of their 2020 NBA Quarterfinals series, but prevailed. In the history of best-of-7 NBA playoff games from 1947 through 2020, inclusive, home teams down 16 points as late as after two quarters had a game record of only 0-11 (.000) - the Denver Nuggets thus achieve a grade-A in-game comeback.