An eight-overtime marathon
Our pal Neate Sager passed along this great little story coming out of the Michigan high school championship:
They were hugging and smiling. They were congratulating one another. They were players from both teams.Great stuff.
After eight overtimes in the Division 1 state championship hockey game Saturday, players from both Marquette and Orchard Lake St. Mary's huddled together, posed for pictures and lifted the state championship trophy.
The score was 1-1 after 109 minutes of play, and the Michigan High School Athletic Association declared co-champions.
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by James Mirtle @ 3:06 PM
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109 minutes TOTAL or 109 of overtime? One is very impressive, and one is not :)
As a player, I would have wanted to continue. Tying is fine, except in championship games. Hell, use a frickin shootout if you are hellbent.
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three 15 minute periods and eight 8 minute overtimes, 109 minutes total
When you said 8-minute overtime, I was thinking 220 minutes, but as I read on, it wasn't even half of that.
I'm assuming it wasn't 20/20/20/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6. How does the time break up for highschool hockey?
It seems mc keeper has clarified.
Play on boys!! No one wins in a tie!
Weak! Why are we so happy giving every child a medal? You're not all winners and you're not all above average. Get used to it.
It was the two best teams out of whoever many teams there are in Division 1 boys hockey in Michigan, which is a hotbed of the sport.
That sounds like they were above-average and winners, relatively speaking. I like a "political correctness run amuck" rant as much as the next guy -- sorry, person -- but it doesn't seem to fit here.
That sounds like they were above-average and winners, relatively speaking
So how come these Division 1 superstars couldn't score more than one goal a piece in 109 minutes?
Alberta Div 5 > Michigan Div 1
How is it that this discussion degrades into "Canada is better than America!!" What does that have to do with anything?
You do know that the two longest NHL games in history each ended 1-0?
What about the Sabres and Devils playing a 1-0 four-overtime game in '94? Should the league have disbanded after that?
I read that one team finished with something like 33 shots. Isn't that like 3 shots a period or something? What up with that?
/not very good at math
Just to clarify why the game was stopped as a tie- Michigan High School hockey games are not permitted on Sundays. Since the game was played on Saturday night, at midnight they would have had to stop and continue on Monday. They chose not to do that as 1 team was from the upper peninsula (about a 16 hour drive I think).
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