Final score: Blue 429, Light 411.
But more importantly, after 62 hours and 15 minutes of hockey, the Moosomin Moose Fraternity raised between $150,000 and $200,000 for a new health centre.
The players also believe they played the longest continuous game ever, qualifying them for the Guinness Book of World Records.
Mike Schwean, an organizer and player, said the event went perfectly.
The two teams of 20 players each – 18 skaters and two goaltenders – took to the ice at 10 a.m. Jan. 9 and played until just after midnight Jan. 12.
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Temperatures below 30 C outside made for cold conditions on the ice.
Schwean said heaters on the players’ benches helped, but the game still took a lot out of its participants.
Doctors were busy providing liniments for assorted aches and pains.
The event is such a good fundraiser that Schwean couldn’t say the community would never do it again.
“It would be nice to think of a summer fundraiser though,” he said.
Last year, a similar event raised $126,000 for the planned integrated health facility.
That game ended after 25 hours when the organizers thought they had the Guinness record. They didn’t.
Schwean said the record book lists the team that has the record at time of printing.
“For our purposes … we want the record, but we really want some certification from them that we would use for display. If some other team wants to take a crack at it, they’re welcome to it.”
