22 March, 2010

Category Archives: Overtime

June 4, 1998: Washington Seriously Parties Over Hockey into the Wee Hours

4 June, 2008

Ten years ago today Joe Juneau scored what many Washington hockey fans consider to be the most significant goal in Capitals’ history — a game and series-ending, Wales Trophy earning tally, one catapulting Capsdom into delirium, 6:24 into overtime, on the road, in the Eastern Conference Finals’ game 6, giving the Caps a 3-2 victory [...]

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A Foul Finish to a Stunner of a Season

23 April, 2008

I dreaded the elevator ride down to the Capitals’ dressing room at 10:07 p.m. last night. Jubilation, as we in HockeyWashington certainly learned this spring, is a damned fun thing to chronicle and consume, and for the first time it seemed in all of 2008, I had to cover jubilation’s juxtaposition — gut-wrenching, sudden and [...]

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Good Karma

6 April, 2008

Can history repeat itself? We’ll soon find out — in the meantime, enjoy this classic from 1988 featuring Dale Hunter’s Game 7 overtime winner against the Flyers.

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Eight Overtimes, Two Champions for Michigan High School Hockey

14 March, 2008

Mary Buckheit of ESPN shares with us a story about the 8-overtime Michigan Division-I High School championship game. As the marathon session approached midnight and the eighth OT period ended, officials declared the game a tie rather than subjecting the kids to further on-ice punishment. Thus Marquette Senior High School and Orchard Lake St. Mary’s [...]

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On Taking in Caps' Shootouts with Eyes Wide Open

21 September, 2007

After practice Wednesday Glen Hanlon†addressed the impact he believes his new high-priced free agent forwards will have on his team’s shootout prospects†this season. On paper, it would appear to be a dramatic one. When you visit NHL.com’s stats page for shootouts from last season, you notice both Michael Nylander and Viktor Kozlov’s names on the [...]

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When Extra Helpings Are Nutritious

26 March, 2007

As best as I can tell, English has no word for the ubiquitous wish hockey fans harbor for prolonged and momentum-shifting sudden death overtime drama, be it contested in the NCAA or NHL postseasons. As we settle in for this gunslinger’s showdown that in drama has no rival anywhere in sports, and assuming we have [...]

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