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DOWNTOWN — Chicago hockey fans have a right to be tired Wednesday: the team won in the third overtime 3-2 over the Nashville Predators. The AP put the time of final goal at 1:16 a.m. Wednesday.
It was described as "101 grueling minutes" before Hawks defensemen Brent Seabrook scored the winning goal.
Listen to audio from the game winning goal:
Infoplease lists the longest playoff overtime game as a Detroit-Montreal Maroons game in 1936 that lasted 176 minutes and 30 seconds in Montreal. Detroit won 1-0 in six overtimes.
Also in six overtimes was the second longest game in NHL playoff history, a 1933, Toronto 1, Boston 0 contest that lasted 164 minutes and 46 seconds.
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