By Adam Dunivan
Loveland Reporter-Herald
This playoff season, the Colorado Eagles have already relished the role of party-crashers.
They hunted down the Quad City Mallards in the i wireless Center, corralled the Missouri Mavericks at the Independence Events Center and dammed up the Rush at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Arena.
Going 4-for-4? Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Still, as the Eagles go to Bossier City for the next three games of the Ray Miron Presidents’ Cup Finals, realize this: Home ice has not been much of an advantage at all in the Central Hockey League.
After Bossier beat Colorado, 5-3, on Saturday night, home teams dropped to 35-29 (.547 win percentage) overall in these playoffs. In nine of the 15 series, the hosts of Games 1 and 2 have either split or lost both contests.
Last year was much the same, if not more remarkably even.
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