Yesterday, the Columbus Blue Jackets and Tampa Bay Lightning decided to turn their matinee game into a primetime game by playing eight periods of hockey. When a game goes into extra stanzas you are bound to watch records get smashed.
Let’s kick things off with the obvious milestone.
Cracked the top 5 longest games in NHL history
The quintuple overtime game between the Jackets and Lightning made for the 4th longest playoff game in NHL history. Yes, there are three other games that were longer than 150:27. Had the Jackets played two more minutes they would have bumped the 1999-2000 Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers out of the three spot.