It was called the “Fog Game.”
Game 3, 1975 Stanley Cup finals, Philadelphia vs. Buffalo.
It was one of the strangest hockey games ever played.
During the first period as fog formed on the ice creating a surreal scene at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, the Sabres’ Jim Lorentz swatted down a bat that had been living in the rafters of the ancient hockey barn. Flyers’ center Rick MacLeish dropped it into the penalty box: Two minutes for delay of game, one supposes.
At 18:29 of the second overtime, Rene Robert of the Sabres’ famous “French Connection” line rammed home a low shot from the right side that Flyers’ goalie Bernie Parent — and a lot of other people — never saw through the murk.