In 1987, Mount St Charles defeated Bishop Hendricken in the *fifth* game to win their *best-of-three* series for the Rhode Island state championship. ! You see, the teams split the first two games, then the third game was tied for a number of overtimes and rules called for a new game to be played the next day, rather then continuing the overtimes. Well, *that* game was also tied and the teams played several overtimes before the game was stopped again. Mount finally won Game 5 to win the series and continue their string of RI state titles, which was up to 11 in 1990; I don't know if they won again this season. They've sent a number of players to the NHL and to college. Considering the teams played at least two games' worth in each of games 3 and 4, from what I recall, and that in effect it took 5 games worth of hockey to decide game 3, I'd say the 1987 RI Championship ranks right up there among long long games. There's also this from the list archives: > From: mike_m > Date: Wednesday, January 3, 1990 4:03:43 pm (EST) > Subject: Hockey East notes, 1/3/90 > To: college_hockey: > .. > > Finally, after all the squawking I did about the triple overtime > between PC and UNH, we have this from the Boston Globe: > > Medford and South Boston were declared cochampions in the > Mite B division of the K of C Christmas tournament in Quincy > after playing to a 3-3 tie. The teams played 10 overtimes > but couldn't break the deadlock... > > THAT'S where we should have been. - mike