The Longest Professional Hockey Game In History Took Place Yesterday

The longest professional hockey game ever played took place yesterday in Norway. The game spanned EIGHT INSANE OVERTIME PERIODS. The total game time ran 217 minutes and 14 seconds. When you factor in the 20-minute intermissions in between each period….That’s, that’s like a full year of hockey, isn’t it?

The game was the 5th game in a best-of-7 playoff series in Norway’s top professional hockey league. Players spent an astounding 8 hours and 35 minutes on the ice before forward Joakim Jensen of Storhamar scored the game-winning goal against Sparta.

You can see the game-winning goal here, and the crowd’s absolute jubilation at being released from 8 hours and 35 minutes of watching two teams battle to their absolute physical limits:

They’ll be playing game 6 tomorrow evening, which gives their bodies the bare minimum of time to recover after playing the longest pro hockey game ever recorded.

To put this into a little bit of perspective, the game’s final shot count was 96-93 (the final score was 2-1), so these goalies had insane nights protecting the nets.

I can’t even wrap my mind around what it would’ve been like to be in the stands for that game. That’s almost three full regulation games of overtime. I was at the Ducks vs. Stars game my freshman year of college at SMU, the 4th longest NHL game in history, and that game spanned just over 4 OT periods (80:48 of overtime play). That game was at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas and by the third overtime period, they legit ran out of things to play on the jumbotron during the intermission. And that’s only four overtime periods, this game in Norway spanned EIGHT.

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