21.   The leader of the free world freed himself before the overtime period began.

22.   The overtime periods are much like extra innings in baseball, where the home team gets to bat last.

23.   The teams were scoreless through regulation and the first overtime period.

24.   The teams will play a five-minute, sudden-death overtime period with a goalie but only four skaters, instead of five.

25.   The third period and the overtime period mingled into a collage of haymakers and breakaways, breathtaking saves and agonizing missed opportunities.

26.   There was no penalty call against Nazareth for a blatant tripping infraction as the sudden-death overtime period began.

27.   Toronto forced the overtime period by scoring with less than a minute to play.

28.   What followed was even more encouraging, as the defense turned in its first three-and-out of the game to open the overtime period.

29.   When it finally happen, when Smyth raced in from the left side in the opening seconds of the second overtime period, you saw what happened.

30.   WHA rules like overtime periods to decide ties have since been adopted by the NHL.