Longest NHL Games in the Post-Expansion Era - The Hockey Writers
Playoff hockey is one of the greatest spectacles, especially when overtime happens. Here are the longest hockey games in the playoffs.
thehockeywriters.coma record-setting marathon in hockey|clocked 176:30 before pitting Detroit in 1936; Mud Bruneteau found the net in the sixth overtime to give the Red Wings a 1-0 win. That marathon still serves as the standard for playoff overtimes. Later affairs included other six-overtime classics in 1933 and 2000-01.