| Follow my YouTube video updates on Twitter. - twitter.com With another hockey season just around the corner, TSN looks back at the most unforgettable moments of the 2009-10 NHL Season. NHL teams have 82 games to assemble a record good enough to advance to the post-season. Some teams are so dominant that they've basically booked their playoff ticket by the time January rolls around. Other squads manage to scrape in with a few days to go, often the result of a well-timed winning streak or an unexpected collapse of another team vying for the same spot. But this past April, a couple of franchises decided to make things a little more interesting by leaving their playoff fate until the eleventh hour, and that's not just a cliché - it actually was the last possible moment. The New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers were deadlocked with 86 points each after 81 games of the regular season. Stats like that generally make for exciting playoff chases on their own. But the icing on the cake was that, in Game No. 82, they were playing each other. The winner made the playoffs and the loser went home. The Flyers and Rangers were tied 1-1 after 60 minutes of regulation and five minutes of overtime. As a result, it would all come down to a shootout to determine who would go to the playoffs and who would hit the golf links; talk about an all-or-nothing proposition. No doubt nerves were on edge that night, but the boys in black and orange seemed pretty self-assured heading into this "one ... |
