Brayden Point gives Lightning win over Blue Jackets after 5 overtimes; Joonas Korpisalo makes 85 saves – ESPN

After six hours, five overtimes and a combined 151 shots on goal, the Tampa Bay Lightning won an epic Game 1 against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night.
Brayden Point scored 150 minutes, 27 seconds into the contest to offer Tampa Bay a 3-2 win.
” It was very unique,” Lightning forward Yanni Gourde stated. We were all looking for a goal.
And on the winning goal, well, there wasnt much science to it: “I see a rolling puck concerning me, I simply toss it on web. Im not even believing,” Point said.

1 RelatedIt was the fourth-longest playoff video game in NHL history– so long that the Boston Bruins-Carolina Hurricanes video game, originally slated for Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET, was rescheduled for Wednesday at 11 a.m. It takes arena workers roughly 90 minutes to decontaminate the benches and tidy the ice between video games; consisting of warm-ups, Boston and Carolina dealt with a start time generally reserved for beer leaguers.
Blue Jackets goaltender Joonas Korpisalo made 85 saves, a brand-new NHL playoff record– topping New York Islanders goaltender Kelly Hrudeys previous mark of 73 saves, embeded in 1987. Columbus blocked 62 shots in the game.
The Lightning alone tallied 88 shots on objective, as numerous as the New York Rangers had integrated in their 3 games against the Hurricanes in the qualification round.
” Im in fact hoping that Korpisalo breaks the 100-save mark,” Hrudey said in an interview on Sportsnet in between overtime durations. “And Im really hoping the video game goes so long that [Andrei] Vasilevskiy breaks my record. Its simply an amazing performance. Ive been waiting for this for 20-something years, at least.”
Vasilevskiy completed with 61 saves.
Columbus defenseman Seth Jones also set a brand-new NHL playoff record for ice time, skating in 65 minutes, 6 seconds, which beat Sergei Zubovs old record of 63 minutes, 51 seconds, for the Dallas Stars in 2003. Jones even bested his father, previous NBA player Popeye Jones, for minutes played in a game. Popeye Jones career high was 56 minutes in 1996, while with the Toronto Raptors, during a three-overtime loss to the Boston Celtics.
After the game, Seth Jones stated he “feels fine” but that he took umbrage to the way the video game was called.
” The officiating was, to me, kinda suspect,” Jones said.

Every player on each team signed up a shot on goal except for Columbus Cam Atkinson, though Atkinson did have a breakaway chance soon prior to Point scored. Atkinson crashed into the net after being chased after down by a protector, but there was no penalty contacted the play.
At one television timeout in the fourth overtime duration, the huge screen in the fanless Scotiabank Arena announced it was time for a seventh-inning stretch. By the 5th overtime, a brand-new message appeared: “Sorry if you had other plans tonight.”
The Blue Jackets already had actually tired legs, playing their sixth video game in nine days, including 2 that went to overtime.
Players on both sides said the mental tiredness was as tiring as the physical tiredness.
“Theres no way to get ready for a game that goes that long,” Point said.

” It was very special,” Lightning forward Yanni Gourde stated. We were all looking for a goal.” Im in fact hoping that Korpisalo breaks the 100-save mark,” Hrudey stated in an interview on Sportsnet in between overtime durations. Columbus defenseman Seth Jones likewise set a new NHL playoff record for ice time, skating in 65 minutes, 6 seconds, which beat Sergei Zubovs old record of 63 minutes, 51 seconds, for the Dallas Stars in 2003. Jones even bested his father, former NBA gamer Popeye Jones, for minutes played in a video game.