Did you miss the ending of the ECHL game Friday night between the Florida Everblades and Evansville IceMen? If so, you missed a record-tying shootout. Just take a look at the box score:

ECHL

That's right, the teams needed until the twenty-first round to decide the 5-4 win for Evansville.

Florida had built up a 3-1 lead after the first period, but Evansville clawed back with three of their own in the second period to take a one goal advantage. Early in the third period, Everblades forward Mike Merrified tied the game with his second of the night, which would send the game into overtime and eventually the 42-player shootout where Andre Bouvet-Morrissette would end things in the 21st round.

The teams meet again Saturday night at 7 p.m. ET, where they probably hope to wrap things up sooner.

According to the ECHL, the last shootout that went 21 rounds happened on Oct. 16, 1992 when the Birmingham Bulls beat the Hampton Roads Admirals 7-6. In 2008, the Fresno Falcons and Phoenix RoadRunners reached 20 rounds before a winner was determined.

The longest shootout in NHL history came on Nov. 26, 2005 when the Marek Malik's trick shot in the 15th round gave the New York Rangers the win over the Washington Capitals.

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APNo. 1 Star: Roberto Luongo, Vancouver Canucks

A goal by Dale Weise midway through the third period was all the Canucks needed to shutout the Nashville Predators 1-0. Luongo made 23 saves for his 62nd career shutout and fifth win in six starts.

No. 2 Star: Brandon Saad, Chicago Blackhawks

As Brent Seabrook sat in the penalty box early in the third period, Saad came in on Brent Burns, wasn't challenged and netted the insurance tally to help the Blackhawks beat the San Jose Sharks 2-1 and set an NHL record to start a season with their 17th straight game with a point.

No. 3 Star: Marc-Andre Fleury, Pittsburgh Penguins

The Penguins bounced back from their loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night with a 3-1 victory over the Florida Panthers. Fleury won his fourth straight start making 22 saves. He's now won seven of his last eight starts.

After Taylor Hall’s kneeing major and game misconduct against Cal Clutterbuck of the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night, it wasn’t a matter of if Hall would be suspended, but for how long.

The answer: 2 games, as was announced by the NHL on Friday evening:

From the NHL:

Edmonton Oilers forward Taylor Hall has been suspended for two games for kneeing Minnesota Wild forward Cal Clutterbuck in NHL Game No. 246 in Edmonton on Thursday, Feb. 21, the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety announced today.

Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and based on his average annual salary, Hall will forfeit $9,729.72. The money goes to the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund.

The incident occurred at 17:27 of the third period. Hall was assessed a major penalty for kneeing and a game misconduct.

NHL player safety czar Brendan Shanahan made it clear that Hall’s knee was extended, made initial contact and that Clutterbuck did nothing to facilitate the dangerous hit – in

The Chicago Blackhawks have a chance to make NHL history against the San Jose Sharks on Friday night, attempting to become the first team to open the season with a point in each of its first 17 games.

And isn’t it funny how the Hockey Gods make these things happen?

To tie the record, set by the 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks, the Blackhawks needed a shootout win against their archrivals, the Vancouver Canucks. To break the record, they’ll have to beat an old friend: Antti Niemi, the Sharks goalie that backstopped the Blackhawks to the 2009-10 Stanley Cup championship.

Niemi was 0-1-1 with a 3.41 GAA at United Center last season and was 1-1 with a 4.80 GAA in the previous season.

The Blackhawks, meanwhile, will get a boost from a healthy Marian Hossa – who left the Canucks game after a hit from behind by Jannik Hansen – and Dan Carcillo, who is ready for this first action of the season.

So is there a buzz in the Chicago room for this NHL record-breaking opportunity?

Sorta. The Blackhawks are trying to play it somewhat cool.

Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov is the Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson of the National Hockey League, having opined on the “humangous beeg” solar system and actually trained as a Russian Cosmonaut.

He’s also Russian, in case that last example was lost on you. Hence, there’s no better expert to opine on the meteor shower damage done to Arena Traktor, the home to the KHL's Traktor Chelyabinsk.

Or, for that matter, on the threat of meteors to the Earth.

Here’s Bryz, on WIP in Philly, talking about the final frontier [s/t Crossing Broad]

“It’s amazing. Probably every day our atmosphere was penetrated with smaller sized of the meteors and just burned high in the atmosphere, yeah. But this is a much bigger size, but not that big that it struck the Earth like far, far behind back in the days when dinosaurs were destroyed.

“It’s one thing that's very interested. On the other hand, it’s dangerous. And you know we can’t protect ourselves from the space danger.

“And the next day the asteroid, the bigger size, flied close to the Earth. And this metal thing, if it hit with huge speed into the Earth, it was going to be disaster right now. We’re not going to be thinking of hockey right now, we were going to be thinking about how to survive.

“We just have to be happy and thankful and enjoy our lives.

Listen to the full interview here, or read the highlights from Crossing Broad.

Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

• Lego Hockey Hall of Fame! We believe that’s Lego Pierre Turgeon on the outside looking in. [Facebook]

• Remembering the Miracle on Ice, which happened 33 years ago. [MPR]

• On Rick DiPietro’s future with the New York Islanders, an unnamed team executive in the NHL tells Pierre LeBrun: “You would think they will buy him out after this season. If they do, they might not use the transition buyout so that his buyout counts against the floor going forward." [ESPN NY]

• Marian Hossa and Dan Carcillo return for the Chicago Blackhawks against the San Jose Sharks. OK, well, Hossa didn’t miss a game, actually. [Tribune]

• In which Don Cherry helps his son scout the OHL. [The Star]

• Is Roberto Luongo just a big phony? [Sportsnet]

• Minnesota Wild blogger offers a message to Taylor Hall: “For a guy that his spent a good amount of time on the shelf with injuries yourself, one would think you’d be a little more careful and considerate with your hits. That type of play was inexcusable, plain and simple. Grow up. You are a vital part of the future for your franchise, and a role model to many, many people. Don’t think that, because your team also drafted Nugent-Hopkins and Nail Yakupov, you have suddenly become expendable. Don’t think you have to resort to being a thug to keep your place on the team.” [Gone Puck Wild]

• Cal Clutterbuck, on crutches: “Usually when I've got the puck, I'm pretty aware. When I don't have the puck, it's obviously out of my control." [@VickiHall]

When the NHL lockout cancelled 2012 Winter Classic, we lost more than hockey's marquee game. We also lost the big reveal of Detroit and Toronto's special, limited-edition jerseys, which is always a fun part of the annual festivities. With as much history as those two squads had to draw from, there was no doubt it was going to be neat.

But if a few recent eBay postings are any indication, there's no need to wonder what sweaters the Red Wings and the Leafs would have been wearing -- you're looking at them.

The Maple Leafs jersey popped up online on February 14th, originally at Icethetics after it was posted on eBay by TheHockeyJersey.co, and a close look at the Leafs sweater suggested to the jersey aesthetes at Icethetics that they aren't simply counterfeits:

I'll level with you guys. I feel no need to help prove that this isn't a counterfeit. I'm just here to share information. You can believe whatever you like. That being said, based on my years of research and knowledge, I'm comfortable saying this jersey came out of a Reebok factory.

Icethetics notes that, while the Winter Classic uniforms weren't released due to the game's cancellation, it was cancelled late enough in the year that the jerseys would likely have been produced.

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