CHARLOTTE, N.C.
This one kept going. And going. And going. And going. And going — straight into the American Hockey League record books.
Alex Krushelnyski scored 6:48 into the fifth overtime period and Alex Lyon made 94 saves to lead the Lehigh Valley Phantoms to a 2-1 win over the Charlotte Checkers early this morning in the longest game in the AHL’s 82-year history.
The Phantoms, the top affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers, took a 3-1 series lead in the Atlantic Division finals by outlasting the Carolina Hurricanes’ farm team in a game that began shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday night and ended at 1:09 a.m. after more than seven periods and 146 minutes and 48 seconds of play.
Lyon posted the second-most saves in league history.
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