On Fri, 31 Mar 1995, Phil Ritzenthaler wrote:
 
> > Tony Buffa wrote after 2 OT periods in the Mich-Maine
> > game
> > >This is the longest playoff game in history, surpassing
> > >such fanastic games as the BG '84 win and the RPI semi
> > >final 3OT win (ten minutes per OT back then) over Minn-
> > >Duluth in '85.
> How do they figure that this was the longest when BG's win occured in
> the 4th OT???
 
In 1984, in the final BGSU did go to 4 overtimes with UMD, but the
overtimes were 10 minutes instead of 20, so in the old system, UM and UM
would have been starting overtime number 5.
 
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Anthony J. Frolik                            University of Minnesota Duluth
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