Remember where you were? Joe Louis Arena held 20,000 but triple that will claim they were there. Fight Night at the Joe. March 26, 1997. Exactly 301 days after Kris Draper's face was destroyed by Claude Lemieux, who by the way, has claimed he never intended to hit Drapes, and regrets it.
DMac putting Lemieux in "turtle mode", Patrick Roy and Mike Vernon going at it at center ice, and Vernon bloodying Roy's face has become one of the greatest moments in Detroit sports.
Of course there was a hockey game to finish after 39 penalties and 148 total minutes, the Avs lead in the 3rd period 5-3.
Marty LaPointe and Shanny scored 36 seconds apart to tie it, then with less than a minute into OT McCarty buries the game winner, 'bingo-bango' Wings win the greatest regular season game ever, 6-5.
Imagine this type of game happening today? No way. This was hockey.
Here's the call as it happened on PASS.