Tuesday was not a good night for fans who leave games early.
In four different games across the NHL, one team forced overtime with a tying goal in the final 15 seconds of regulation. That is an NHL record, Sportsnet Stats can confirm, after Chris Jastrzembski of TNT Sports was first to report the record on X.
The first tying goal came in the Anaheim Ducks‘ 4-3 shootout win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. After Anthony Mantha gave Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead with under five minutes to go in the game, rookie Beckett Sennecke scored the tying goal at 19:59 after dancing around multiple Penguins before banking the puck in off Erik Karlsson’s glove.
The Vegas Golden Knights were the second team to force OT in the dying seconds, doing so against the New York Islanders. Pavel Dorofeyev buried the tyin

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