USA TODAY SportsOvertimes galore: NHL has seen 12 games go long since play resumed on Aug. 1
The five-overtime thriller between the Lightning and Blue Jackets was the best, but 11 other games have gone to extra time.
- The Associated Press
NHL provides playoff hub teams a few tastes of 'home'
As much as NHL chief of events and entertainment Steve Mayer would like to include those features, and so many others distinctive to the league's markets, there is only so much he and his hundreds of staffers can do given the limitations of being inside the playoff hub-city bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta. From the Ramones' ''Blitzkrieg Bop,'' to Jimmy Eat World's ''Sweetness'' pounding through the PA systems, Toronto's Scotiabank Arena has been made to resemble everyplace from Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York, to the Panthers' BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida.
Associated PressNHL provides playoff hub teams a few tastes of `home'
As much as NHL chief of events and entertainment Steve Mayer would like to include those features, and so many others distinctive to the league’s markets, there is only so much he and his hundreds of staffers can do given the limitations of being inside the playoff hub-city bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta.
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