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Phantoms was up early as usual Thursday to take a walk and stop for a breakfast sandwich and his morning coffee.The 25-year-old goalie was no worse for the wear a little over seven hours after he finished a 94-save performance in an American Hockey League playoff game in North Carolina that stretched to seven periods and 146 minutes http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/jared-goff-jersey , 48 seconds of play.”This morning I’m feeling happy, obviously,” he said. ”The saves aren’t as big a deal to me as us getting the win. To win after basically playing 2 games is such an emotional … oh, a relief. The human body wasn’t meant to do that.”The Philadelphia Flyers‘ top farm club beat the host Charlotte Checkers 2-1 when Alex Krushelnyski scored 6:48 into the fifth overtime. The game began shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday and ended at 1:09 a.m. Thursday, making it the longest game in the AHL’s 82-year history.Lyon, surprisingly, did not set a record. The AHL mark for most saves in a game belongs to Michael Leighton, who stopped 98 shots for the Albany River Rats in a 3-2, five-overtime loss to the Phantoms on April 24 http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/brandin-cooks-jersey , 2008.”Someone rubbed that in my face,” Lyon said, laughing. ”You think you’re in the record book, and you’re not.”The NHL record for saves is 92 by the Detroit Red Wings‘ Normie Smith in a 1-0 playoff win over the Montreal Maroons in 1936.Lyon, who started seven games and appeared in 11 for the Flyers this season, stopped the last 79 shots while shutting out Charlotte over the final 119:56. Charlotte outshot Lehigh Valley 95-53, including 54-29 in the overtime periods.Lyon lost count of how many water bottles he went through; normally he drinks at least eight in a regulation game. To keep their energy up, Lyon and his teammates drank Coke and ate cookies, brownies http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/robert-woods-jersey , fig bars and bread slices during the overtime intermissions.He went through a range of emotions. At times he savored the atmosphere, especially the fast pace of regulation and the early part of the first overtime. But the game slowed, and he acknowledged getting irrationally frustrated as his teammates struggled to score. He also fought boredom.”You’re standing in the crease for so long,” he said, ”and you’re seeing the same thing over and over again. It really blends together.”Lyon said his 94-save feat shouldn’t overshadow the work of his teammates.”I wish I could act like the warrior in this situation, but we had one of our defensemen go down with a knee injury halfway through the first period,” he said. ”So we were playing with five defensemen (instead of six), which is totally mind-blowing to me.“At least I can try to recover and take a knee when the puck’s down at the other end. Sometimes you go through four or five minutes of a lull where you’re standing around. Five defensemen? It doesn’t seem like a big deal to maybe a common fan. I’m sure you know it’s so much more ice time, just so much more Authentic Alex Smith Jersey , so that was really impressive.”The Phantoms lead the Atlantic Division best-of-seven finals 3-1 over the Carolina Hurricanes‘ affiliate and, because of their five-overtime win, can wrap up the series Saturday.”You put in so much effort and so much work,” Lyons said, ”that it’s nice to come out with something to show for it.” DETROIT (AP) — Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Edward Pasquale gave up five goals in his NHL debut — and still won the game.Nikita Kucherov and defenseman Victor Hedman scored in a shootout to give the Lightning a 6-5 comeback victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night.“I didn’t think I’d give up five goals and get the win, but this team has so much scoring power you’ve just got to fight through,” said Pasquale, who made 19 saves in regulation and overtime.According to Lightning coach Jon Cooper, Pasquale said: “Only in Tampa can you give up five and still get the win” as he came off the ice.Pasquale stopped Frans Nielsen Alex Smith Jersey Elite , the NHL’s career leader in shootout goals, and Thomas Vanek in the tiebreaker.“He had some pretty good shooters coming at him, Nielsen and Vanek. He stops them both,” Cooper said. “He gave us a chance to pull it out and that’s what we did.”Tampa Bay, which has won seven of eight, erased a 5-3 deficit in the third period and overcame Nielsen’s hat trick to defeat the Red Wings for the 13th consecutive time in the regular season.Mathieu Joseph had two goals and an assist for Tampa Bay. Steven Stamkos, J.T. Miller and Cedric Paquette also scored. Ryan Callahan added two assists.Despite the shootout goal, Kucherov’s 10-game point streak came to an end.Nielsen scored three times for his second career hat trick. Gustav Nyquist scored twice, plus a shootout goal. Andreas Athanasiou and Dylan Larkin had two assists apiece http://www.washingtonredskinsteamonline.com/alex-smith-jersey , and Jimmy Howard made 30 saves for Detroit.Tampa Bay was playing the second of back-to-back games after beating New Jersey 5-1 on the road Monday night.Paquette’s short-handed goal with 5:02 left in regulation tied it at 5. It was his seventh goal.Miller pulled the Lightning to 5-4 at 9:50 of the third period with his sixth goal.The Red Wings led 4-3 after two and Nyquist’s second goal of the game, 4:06 into the third, made it 5-3. It was Nyquist’s sixth goal.Nielsen completed his hat trick with 3:34 left in the second to break a 3-all tie with his fourth goal.Joseph scored twice in the second to give him eight goals this season, and Stamkos got his 10th.Nielsen scored his second of the game 6:27 into the middle period.Detroit took a 2-0 lead with goals 21 seconds apart in the first. Nyquist opened the scoring with 3:06 left, and Nielsen scored with 2:45 remaining in the period.Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser left after the second period with an upper-body injury and coach Jeff Blashill said he expects DeKeyser to be out “multiple weeks.”NOTES: Tampa Bay was without G Andrei Vasilevskiy (broken left foot) and D Anton Stralman (upper body). … Detroit RW Anthony Mantha missed his first game after breaking his right hand Sunday against Colorado. He had surgery Tuesday afternoon and is expected to miss four to six weeks. … Red Wings forward Tyler Bertuzzi served the first game of his two-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct and roughing against the Avalanche on Sunday.UP NEXTLightning: Host the Boston Bruins on Thursday.Red Wings: Visit the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday.