The sweater was peeled off after each overtime period, replaced by the dried-out one from the period before. Alex Lyon would waddle into the Phantoms dressing room, plop on the bench in front of his locker, and the trainers would go to work on him as if he were a stock car in a pit stop.
One overtime. Two overtimes. Three overtimes. A fourth. A fifth? Peel it off. Get another one. “They kept drying ’em out, drying ’em out, drying ’em out,’’ said the goaltender. “The one I was wearing was pretty yellow by the end of the game.