The tweet above calls Alex Krushelnyski the hero of last night’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms–Charlotte Checkers five-overtime AHL playoff game. With all due respect to Krushelnyski, he wasn’t. There’s no way the game even gets to overtime if Lehigh Valley goalie Alex Lyon doesn’t do what he did.
Lyon made 94 saves on 95 shots in nearly 147 minutes in net. His team was out-shot by a wide, wide margin, 95–53. Lyon gave up a game-tying goal early in the second period and then saved the next 79 shots, a span of 119:56 seconds of shutout hockey.