The Missouri Mavericks have made CHL history with their start to the Turner Conference Finals by winning the first two games in Fort Wayne.  The Mavs won Game 1 in overtime by a 3-2 score and then doubled-up the Komets 6-3 in Game 2 on Saturday night.

The two road wins in Game’s 1 and 2 of the CHL conference finals has never happened prior to the Mavs success in Fort Wayne.

There have been 18 times in the 20-year history of the CHL that a team has jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the conference finals and in 13 of those series, the wins both came on home ice and in five of those series’, the first two games were split with one victory in each city.

This season, both Missouri and Wichita have a 2-0 conference finals lead making it 20 times it has happened.

Only once in those previous 18 series’ that a team has jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the conference finals have they not gone on to win the series and that came in 2002 when the El Paso Buzzards won the first two games on home ice only to have the Austin Ice Bats come back and win Game’s 3, 4 and 5 on home ice taking a 3-2 series lead and then triumphing in Game 6 in El Paso to advance to the CHL Finals where they lost to Memphis.

Things change a bit if you factor in the history of the Western Professional Hockey League as two teams won the first two games on the road in a conference final.  The most recent was in the 2000 WPHL Playoffs when the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs won the first two games of the series, both in Central Texas, en route to winning the WPHL title.  The first time was in 1997 when the Central Texas Stampede defeated the New Mexico Scorpions in Game’s 1 and 2 in New Mexico and went on to win the series but lost in the WPHL Finals to El Paso.

History may not be on the side of the Komets with Game’s 3, 4 and 5 upcoming this week in Missouri but the champions heart of Fort Wayne will not go unnoticed and the Mavs and their head coach Scott Hillman certainly won’t let up on the peddle.