Remembering the Flyers-Penguins Marathon Game

Last night the Carolina Hurricanes and Florida Panthers put on a great show. The game started at a little after 8pm and ended just before 2 am. Florida’s Matthew Tkachuk sent everyone home with under 13 seconds left to play in the fourth overtime period of the game. Had he missed that shot, it would have sent the game into a fifth overtime; something that has happened just five times before. And it got me to thinking about the time the Flyers did this.

It was 2000. I was a junior in college in Utica, NY. My roommate, Ken, was a huge Penguins fan. And this came right on the heels of the Flyers whomping on the Buffalo Sabres in five games; a team that my friend Joe from across the hall was a…