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unusual facts about Third Period



Mike Quill

The CP was at that time in the last years of its ultrarevolutionary Third Period, when it sought to form revolutionary unions outside the American Federation of Labor.


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1927–28 New York Rangers season

The crowd became unruly in the third period, throwing objects onto the ice after referee Mike Rodden disallowed an apparent game-tying goal by the Maroons.

1942 Stanley Cup Finals

Goldham and Billy Taylor scored goals 32 seconds apart late in the third period to clinch the game for the Maple Leafs, who now were being considered the favourites to win the series in the seventh game.

1945 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

In the third period, each team traded touchdowns when James Robertson scored on a 51-yard run for the Crimson Tide and on a 36-yard Hartford Granitz pass to Wallace Jones for the Wildcats to make the score 47–19 at the end of the third.

1960–61 NHL season

Gendron had a goal, but the main feature was the 21 penalties referee Frank Udvari had to call, including several majors in the third period.

1963 Chicago Bears season

Tittle came back in the third period, but he needed cortisone, Novocain, and heavy taping and bandaging just to continue.

1989 Stanley Cup playoffs

Doug Gilmour scored two goals in the third period, including the eventual game and Cup winner to cement the victory for the Flames.

1998–99 Buffalo Sabres season

Alexander Karpovtsev scored at 13:09 of the second to pull the Maple Leafs to within one, but they could not score the equalizer and Curtis Brown iced the game with an empty-net goal at 19:31 of the third period and the Sabres won, 4–2.

The Sabres went on to score twice in the third period, on goals by Curtis Brown at 5:21 and Geoff Sanderson at 11:02.

2012–13 Anaheim Ducks season

Defenseman Sheldon Souray uses his trademark slapshot to score the game-winning goal with 2:08 left in the third period; the Los Angeles Times had run an article on Souray's benefits to the team that very morning.

Flyers–Rangers rivalry

When the third period was about to begin, President Bush addressed congress and America about the war on terrorism.

Kelowna Rockets

Justin Keller scored the game-winning goal late in the third period as the host Kelowna Rockets won their first ever MasterCard Memorial Cup by defeating the QMJHL Champion Gatineau Olympiques.

Krivokrasov stick incident

At 3:05 left in the third period, Lada Head coach, Petr Vorobiev, asked for Krivokrasov's stick measurement.

Noah Welch

In his next game against the Montreal Canadiens, having replaced the suspended Eric Cairns, he suffered a nightmare start, scoring in his own net, but made amends by scoring his first NHL goal in the third period against the team he always cheered against as a child and Boston Bruins fan.