EclecticLip

Further backfill is in the works — clearly, I need to carve out more time to take my mailing list stuff and cobble it into this blog — but I have a new posting here.

Did watch the recent Sens-Pens triple-overtime game from about the second period onwards, which has gone into the record books as the 29th longest NHL game thus far.  I remember watching the Easter Epic back in ‘87 (from the third period on), long before the era of the neutral-zone trap made long overtime games an annual occurrence.  Back then, it had been the fifth-longest game in NHL history.  It was Kelly Hrudey’s 73-save performance that earned him a backup spot on the Canada Cup in the summer of ‘87, and later being traded to the Kings at Wayne Gretzky’s behest.