Aces Beat Las Vegas 4-3 In Triple Overtime, Advance To National Conference Finals
May 3, 2006
By Matt Nevala
Anchorage Daily News
ANCHORAGE - After 113 minutes and 30 seconds of exhausting hockey played in almost five hours, it ended -- it finally ended.
Cam Keith scored 13:30 into triple overtime early Wednesday morning, lifting the Alaska Aces to a 4-3 win over the Las Vegas Wranglers in Game 6 of the ECHL West Division finals and a 4-2 victory in the best-of-7 series.
The playoff game was the third-longest played in the 18-year history of the ECHL.
What remained of a standing-room only crowd of 6,451 went bonkers when Keith knocked in his own rebound with his stick positioned just below the cross-bar of Las Vegas goaltender Marc Magliarditi's net.
Keith, the former UAF power forward, reacted as though he was in stunned amazement. His goal went in at 12:06 a.m., and Keith skated behind the Las Vegas goal, up the center of the ice and fell to his back -- sliding along until his teammates jumped all over him.
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