Matthew Tkachuk scored with 13 seconds left in the fourth overtime on Friday morning, giving florida panthers won 3-2 carolina hurricane Ended the sixth-longest game in NHL history in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals in Raleigh, North Carolina
The game that began Thursday night went to 79 minutes and 47 seconds of overtime, 13 seconds shy of becoming the sixth game in league history to see a fifth overtime.
Here are the six longest games in NHL history (times listed are minutes and seconds of overtime; last scorer):
March 24, 1936 – Detroit 1, Montreal Malones 0, semi-final, 116:30 (Mud Bruneteau)
April 3, 1933 – Toronto 1, Boston 0, semi-final, 104:46 (Ken Dorati)
May 4, 2000 — Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1, Eastern Conference Semifinals, 92:01 (Keith Primo)
Aug. 11, 2020 — Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 2, East 1st round, 90:27 (Cape Braden)
April 24, 2003 — Anaheim 4, Dallas 3, Western Conference Semifinals, 80:48, (Petr Sykora)
May 18, 2023 — Florida 3, Carolina 2, Eastern Conference Finals, 79:47 (Matthew Tkachuk)
Source: NHL.com
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