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41 years to the minute.

The puck will drop at JLA exactly 41 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald and the saltwater vessel Avafors had the following radio exchange.

Fitzgerald: "I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I've ever been in."

Avafors: "If I'm correct, you have two radars."

Fitzgerald: "They're both gone."

Minutes later, more than the radars were gone. The entire ship and all 29 crewmembers.

Gordon told us the rest a few years later, of course.