Overtime (ice hockey)

The Overtime ( German  Game Extension ) refers to the season in Hockey , but also other sports after the actual playing time has already passed. If a game is not decided after the actual playing time, there is usually a so-called overtime. Overtime during a regular season is not used in all leagues, however. Almost every association and league has its own rules regarding overtime.

variants

Overtimes come in a wide variety of lengths and variations, and it also varies whether three, four or five field players per team are allowed to be on the ice.

Variants:

• limited, ending in a draw after expiry (applied in the NHL regular season through the 2003/04 season )
• limited, with subsequent penalty shootout (used in the regular season of the NHL since the 2005/06 season )
• continuous, divided into periods of 20 minutes each (used in the NHL playoffs )

Furthermore, each of these variants can either be played in Sudden Death mode or the result can be settled at the end of the specified extra time .

Overtimes in various leagues and associations

In international ice hockey federation matches, there is no overtime during the group stage, but ten minutes of overtime and then penalty shootout in the playoffs.

In the National Hockey League a sudden death overtime variant of a maximum of five minutes was introduced again for the 1983/84 season after the regular season overtime had been abolished in 1942 for economic reasons and, above all, for reasons of travel technology. First, an overtime loss was rated as a full-time loss. Since the 1998/99 season , a team that has suffered a defeat after overtime has received one point. Since the same season, overtime is no longer played as usual with 5-on-5, but with 4-on-4 field players. The aim of both changes was to make the overtime more offensive and at the same time reduce the number of draws.

Since the 2005/06 season there has been a shootout after five minutes of overtime in a tie , the so-called shootout, in which three players per team compete. There are two points for a win in the regular season in the NHL, regardless of whether it was scored in regular time, overtime or the shootout. A team that is defeated in overtime or shootout receives one point and a team that loses in regular time does not. There is a continuous 5-on-5 sudden death overtime in the NHL playoffs. After 20 minutes there is a break, the ice is freshly prepared and the teams switch sides after the break. The highest number of overtime thirds ever achieved in the NHL playoffs is six. This happened on March 24, 1936, in a game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons , which the Red Wings won 1-0.

In the Finnish SM-liiga , a sudden death overtime of five minutes with a subsequent penalty shoot-out is played during the main season. In the playoffs there are 20-minute sudden death overtime thirds.

In the regular season of the Austrian league there is a five-minute 3-on-3 sudden death overtime followed by a penalty shootout. A continuous 20-minute 5-on-5 sudden death overtime is played in the playoffs.

In the German Ice Hockey League , a five-minute 3-on-3 sudden death overtime (up to 2015 4-on-4) followed by a penalty shoot-out is played in the regular season. The winner after regular playing time receives three, the winner after overtime or penalty shootout two, the loser after overtime one and the loser after regular time no points. In the playoffs there was only one extra third of 20 minutes at most until the end of the 2006/07 season . If no goal was scored by the end of the extra time, a penalty shoot-out followed as in the main round to determine the winner. For the 2007/08 season , the league leadership, following the example of the NHL, introduced a continuous extension of time in sections of 20 minutes each until one team scored the decisive goal. The innovation meant that the record for the longest DEL game between March 16 and 22, 2008, which had existed since 1995, was improved three times. The longest overtime game so far in German ice hockey history was the third playoff quarter-final between the Kölner Haien and Adler Mannheim on March 22, 2008. Cologne's Philip Gogulla scored the 5-4 winning goal in the sixth extra time after a total of 168: 16 minutes. At the same time, a new record was set as the longest game in European ice hockey.

Longest overtime games

North America

National Hockey League

The NHL playoff game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons on March 24, 1936 was the longest game in ice hockey history for over 80 years. The decisive goal came in the sixth period of extra time after a total playing time of 176: 30 minutes. This record was broken in Norway on March 12, 2017.

#	Duration d. OT	Number of OT thirds	Winning team	Result	Inferior team	date	Winner scorer
1.	116: 30	6th	Detroit Red Wings	1-0	Montreal Maroons	March 24, 1936	Mud Bruneteau
2.	104: 46	6th	Toronto Maple Leafs	1-0	Boston Bruins	April 3, 1933	Ken Doraty
3.	92:01	5	Philadelphia Flyers	2: 1	Pittsburgh Penguins	May 4, 2000	Keith Primeau
4th	90:27	5	Tampa Bay Lightning	3: 2	Columbus Blue Jackets	August 11, 2020	Brayden Point
5.	80:48	5	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	4: 3	Dallas Stars	April 24, 2003	Petr Sýkora
6th	79:15	4th	Pittsburgh Penguins	3: 2	Washington Capitals	April 24, 1996	Petr Nedvěd
7th	78:06	4th	Vancouver Canucks	5: 4	Dallas Stars	April 11, 2007	Henrik Sedin
8th.	70:18	4th	Toronto Maple Leafs	3: 2	Detroit Red Wings	March 23, 1943	Jack McLean
9.	69:03	4th	Dallas Stars	2: 1	San Jose Sharks	May 4, 2008	Brenden Morrow
10.	68:52	15 1	Canadiens de Montréal	2: 1	New York Rangers	March 28, 1930	Gus Rivers

¹The teams initially played a 10-minute extension, which was common at the time. This was followed by 15-minute sections. There the Canadiens met after 13:52 minutes in the fourth 15-minute overtime third.

American Hockey League

#	Duration d. OT	Number of OT thirds	Winning team	Result	Inferior team	date	Winner scorer
1.	86:48	5	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	2: 1	Charlotte Checkers	May 9, 2018	Alex Krushelnyski
2.	82:58	5	Philadelphia Phantoms	3: 2	Albany River Rats	April 24, 2008	Ryan Potulny
3.	74:56	4th	Hamilton Bulldogs	2: 1	Houston Eros	May 30, 2003	Michael Ryder
4th	74:08	4th	New Haven Nighthawks	3: 2	Rochester Americans	April 10, 1982	Warren Holmes
5.	64:20	4th	San Diego Gulls	3: 2	Bakersfield Condors	3rd May 2019	Max Comtois
6th	62:42	4th	Syracuse Stars	3: 2	Cleveland Barons	April 4, 1938
7th	61:46	4th	Pittsburgh Hornets	3: 2	Cleveland Barons	April 14, 1953
8th.	60:16	4th	Oklahoma City Barons	2: 1	Utica Comets	May 7, 2015	Curtis Hamilton
9.	59:47	3	Cleveland Barons	3: 2	Providence Reds	March 28, 1939
10.	57:22	3	Rockford IceHogs	4: 3	Chicago Wolves	April 26, 2018	Victor Ejdsell

ECHL

In the ECHL , the longest encounter lasted a total of 137: 18 minutes. The Idaho Steelheads beat the Colorado Eagles 3-2 on April 28, 2014.

#	Duration d. OT	Number of OT thirds	Winning team	Result	Inferior team	date	Winner scorer
1.	77:18	4th	Idaho steelheads	3: 2	Colorado Eagles	April 28, 2014	David de Kastrozza
2.	66:10	4th	Elmira Jackals	5: 4	Trenton Devils	April 10, 2009	Josh Aspenlind
3.	64:19	4th	South Carolina Stingrays	4: 3	Gwinnett Gladiators	April 6, 2012	Zach Tarkir
4th	61:24	4th	Greenville Grrrowl	3: 2	Louisiana IceGators	May 5, 2000	Martin Máša
5.	55:19	3	Jackson Bandits	5: 4	Louisiana IceGators	April 5, 2002	Bogdan Rudenko
6th	53:30	3	Alaska Aces	4: 3	Las Vegas Wranglers	May 2, 2006	Cam Keith
7th	50:37	3	Mississippi Sea Wolves	4: 3	South Carolina Stingrays	April 13, 1999	Kevin Hilton
8th.	48:13	3	Las Vegas Wranglers	3: 2	Idaho steelheads	April 6, 2011	Dustin Friesen
9.	48:08	3	Adirondack Thunder	3: 2	Manchester monarchs	May 7, 2018	Mathieu Brodeur
10.	46:30	3	Pee Dee Pride	4: 3	Mississippi Sea Wolves	May 2, 1999	Rick Bennett

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The longest game in the National Collegiate Athletic Association was played on March 12, 2010. In the quarter-final round of the ECAC Hockey which beat Quinnipiac University , the Union College after 150: 22 minutes Total time - so 90:22 minutes Overtime - 3: 2nd

Europe

German ice hockey league

On March 22, 2008, in the DEL game between the Kölner Haien and the Adler Mannheim , Philip Gogulla scored the winning goal after 168: 16 minutes in the ninth third of the match. With breaks and interruptions, the game lasted a little over six and a half hours. It is the longest ice hockey game ever played in Germany and, until 2017, was the longest game ever played in Europe in ice hockey history.

#	Duration d. OT	Number of OT thirds	Winning team	Result	Inferior team	date	Winner scorer
1.	108: 16	6th	Cologne Sharks	5: 4	Adler Mannheim	22 Mar 2008	Philip Gogulla
2.	57:47	3	Iserlohn Roosters	3: 2	Frankfurt Lions	20 Mar 2008	Michael Wolf
3.	50:00	3	Cologne Sharks	4: 3	EHC Munich	16. Mar. 2011	Philip Gogulla
4th	48:09	3	Hanover Scorpions	3: 2	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	30th Mar 2010	David Wolf
5.	45:54	3	Adler Mannheim	3: 2	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	22 Mar 2013	Matthias Plachta
6th	43:34	3	Augsburg panther	2: 1	EHC Red Bull Munich	0April 7, 2019	Brady Lamb
7th	43:17	3	Polar bears Berlin	3: 2	Straubing Tigers	03rd Mar 2017	Jamie MacQueen
8th.	41:12	3	EHC Red Bull Munich	2: 1	Augsburg panther	03rd Apr 2019	Mark Voakes
9.	40:28	3	Polar bears Berlin	4: 3	Adler Mannheim	19 Mar 2017	Marcel Noebels
10.	39:14	2	Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven	4: 3	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	0March 8 2019	Maxime Fortunus

Erste Bank Ice Hockey League (Austria)

Since March 16, 2019, the EBEL game between the Klagenfurt AC and HC Bozen has been the longest game in the history of the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .

#	Duration d. OT	Number of OT thirds	Winning team	Result	Inferior team	date	Winner scorer
1.	60:53	4th	Klagenfurt AC	4: 3	HC Bolzano	16. Mar. 2019	Johannes Bischofberger
2.	51:39	3	EC Red Bull Salzburg	3: 2	Villacher SV	13 Mar 2015	John Hughes
3.	43:55	3	Vienna Capitals	4: 3	HC Innsbruck	28 Feb 2017	Taylor Vause
4th	36:38	2	Klagenfurt AC	1-0	Graz 99ers	29 Mar 2019	Siim Liivik
5.	35:28	2	EC Red Bull Salzburg	3: 2	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	0March 8 2011	Matthias Trattnig
6th	27:24	2	Orli Znojmo	6: 5	Klagenfurt AC	07th Mar 2015	Ondrej Sedivy
7th	26:21	2	Vienna Capitals	3: 2	HC Bolzano	17th Mar 2017	Taylor Vause
8th.	22:37	2	Klagenfurt AC	3: 2	Orli Znojmo	05th Mar 2017	Thomas Koch
9.	22:27	2	EC Red Bull Salzburg	4: 3	Black Wings Linz	0Apr 5, 2010	Doug Lynch
10.	17:27	1	Klagenfurt AC	4: 3	Orli Znojmo	Feb. 26, 2017	Jamie Lundmark

Switzerland (National and Swiss League)

In Switzerland, infinite overtime was introduced in the 2017/18 season. The longest game took place on March 21, 2019. SC Bern defeated Geneva-Servette 117: 43 minutes 3: 2.

#	league	Duration d. OT	Number of OT thirds	Winning team	Result	Inferior team	date	Winner scorer
1.	NL	57:43	3	SC Bern	3: 2	Genève-Servette HC	21 Mar 2019	Mark Arcobello
2.	SL	44:41	3	SC Langenthal	4: 3	EHC Olten	Feb 21, 2020	Mathieu Maret
3.	NL	42:32	3	EHC Kloten	3: 2	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	April 17, 2018	Denis Hollenstein
4th	NL	35:49	2	Genève-Servette HC	3: 2	SC Bern	14 Mar 2019	Johan Fransson
5.	NL	35:33	2	EV train	5: 4	HC Lugano	16. Mar. 2019	Brian Flynn
6th	SL	32:42	2	HC Thurgau	3: 2	HC Ajoie	Feb. 24, 2019	Michael Loosli

Continental hockey league

The longest ever game in the Continental Hockey League took place on March 22, 2018. In the quarter-finals of the KHL playoffs of the 2017/18 season , Jokerit Helsinki defeated HK CSKA Moscow 2-1 in the fifth game of the series with a goal from Mika Niemi . The total playing time of the game was 142: 09 minutes and lasted a little over six hours with breaks and interruptions. The match between Helsinki and Moscow replaced the previous record of 126: 14 minutes, which HK Donbass Donetsk and HC Lev Prague had set to the day almost four years ago.

#	Duration d. OT	Number of OT thirds	Winning team	Result	Inferior team	date	Winner scorer
1.	82:09	5	Jokerit Helsinki	2: 1	HK CSKA Moscow	22 Mar 2018	Mika Niemi
2.	66:14	4th	HK Donbass Donetsk	4: 3	HC Lev Prague	21 Mar 2014	Andrei Konew
3.	58:48	3	Severstal Cherepovets	3: 2	Yaroslavl locomotive	Feb 25, 2013	Denis Kasionov
4th	156:42 1	3	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg	4: 3	Amur Khabarovsk	06th Mar 2013	Branislav Mezei
5.	56:35	3	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	3: 2	Admiral Vladivostok	March 12 2014	Danis Saripov
6th	53:24	3	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	2: 1	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	11th Mar 2014	Alexander Stepanov
7th	51:12	3	SKA Saint Petersburg	0: 1	HK CSKA Moscow	26th Mar 2016	Geoff Platt
8th.	49:11	3	HK Awangard Omsk	3: 2	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	15th Mar 2011	Andrei Pervyshin
9.	48:54	3	Ak Bars Kazan	2: 1	HK tractor Chelyabinsk	22 Mar 2012	Danis Saripov
10.	45:14	3	HK Awangard Omsk	2: 1	Admiral Vladivostok	Feb 22, 2017	Alexander Kucheryavenko

¹The game was part of the Nadezhda Cup .

Sweden

The third division game between Osby IK and Mariestad BoIS in 1993 was for a long time the longest game in European ice hockey history with a total playing time of 148:42 minutes, or five overtime thirds.

Norway

On March 12, 2017, the game Storhamar Dragons against Sparta Warriors was only decided after a playing time of 217: 14 minutes, i.e. in the eighth extra time. It replaced the NHL playoff game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons on March 24, 1936 as the longest ice hockey game in history. The duration of the overtime was 157: 14 minutes, whereby the game ended shortly before the end of the eleventh period.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} DEL game sets new Euro overtime record. In: iihf.com. March 23, 2008, accessed May 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ coloradoeagles.com, Eagles End Season with 3-2 Loss to Steelheads in Longest Game in ECHL History ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ collegehockeynews.com, Longest Games
4. ↑ srec./dpa: Longest ice hockey game: Norway sets a record - ice hockey marathon does not end until 2.33 a.m. In: FAZ.net . March 13, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .