The Bruins and Oilers went to overtime tied at three. Then every single player on both teams forgot how to shoot a hockey puck into a net with a hockey stick:
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Sometimes long shootouts are exciting, but this one was just a parade of failure. Some shots were saved. Some were missed. The two teams explored every which way a hockey player could fail to sneak a puck past a goalie. I'm told that if they had gotten to 0-for-50, the NHL would have arranged an emergency T.J. Oshie shipment.
Finally, on the 24th attempt, defenseman Martin Marincin -- he of the zero NHL goals -- managed to get one past Tuukka Rask:
It... it doesn't even look like he was trying to shoot it. I think he just didn't get his stick on the puck and it floated through Rask's legs. Regardless, it's a goal -- and on Marincin's birthday no less!
At 12 rounds, this wasn't the longest shootout in NHL history -- the Panthers and Capitals went 20 rounds in December -- but we're guessing it's the furthest a shootout has ever gone without a single goal. (Update: Flyers-Rangers went 13 rounds in 2006!)
With the win, the Oilers remain in last place in the Western Conference.