Listen to the radio and television calls of Brayden Point’s goal that ended the fourth longest game in NHL history.
Five overtimes!
There were no fans to head for the exits early when the Lightning and Blue Jackets played one of the longest games in NHL history yesterday afternoon (and night).
Tampa Bay and Columbus played 90 minutes and 27 seconds of extra time, the fourth longest game the league has ever seen. The game started at 3 p.m. ET and didn’t end until 9:23. It went on for so long that the Bruins-Hurricanes game previously scheduled for 8 p.m. had to be pushed back to the morning.
Blue Jackets goalie Joonas Korpisalo made an NHL-record 85 saves but couldn’t stop Brayden Point’s wrister from the high slot more than halfway through the fifth overtime.
It was a dramatic goal and it produced some fantastic commentary from the guys calling the game on TV and radio.
Here’s how it sounded with John Forslund on the call for NBCSN.
Rick Peckham handles the play-by-play duties for the Lightning on Fox Sports Sun and sounded like he was in disbelief when Point’s shot hit the back of the net.
Radio play-by-play man Dave Mishkin definitely believed what he saw, though. Mishkin, who handles the Bolts’ broadcasts on WFLA, nearly blew his mic out screaming, “Scores! Scores! Scores!”
(I couldn’t find Columbus radio broadcaster Bob McElligott’s or Fox Sports Columbus play-by-play announcer Jeff Rimer’s calls of the goal, so please send them my way if you come across them.)
The game was the NHL’s longest in 20 years, 94 seconds shorter than a Flyers-Penguins conference semifinal game from May 4, 2000. The two longest games in league history were played in 1933 and 1936, more than two decades before the first goalie wore a mask full-time. So Point’s goal was a truly historic moment that we’ll be seeing for decades to come. With any luck, it’ll be Mishkin’s frantic call that lives on as the preferred historical record of Point’s goal. ESPN.com’s game recap page is already using the audio of Mishkin’s call over NBCSN’s video feed.
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