A High Scoring Hockey Game

   Today we are going to look a high scoring Hockey game.
   On January 17, 1962 The Toledo Mercurys of the International Hockey League traveled to the Saint Paul Auditorium for a game against the Saint Paul Saints. The Mercurys quickly took control of the game with a goal at the 1:26 mark of the first period and another at 6:23 to claim a 2-1 lead in the contest. Shortly after that disaster struck the Mercurys when goaltender Norm Jacques had to leave the game with an injury. At the end of the first period the Saints held a 4-2 lead. The Mercurys then suffered though an unbearable second period watching the Saints score 6 goals to their one to find themselves on the short end of a 10-3 score at the second intermission. Judging by the results of the third period the Mercurys must have never made it out for the third period as the Saints took aim at the league recordbook with a 10 goal period to take a 20-3 win from the shellshocked visitors.
  Among the many records set were: most total points both clubs with a combined 64 points, most points by one team, the Saints with 55; most points by a team in one period, the Saints with 29 in the third period; most assists in a game Jean-Paul Denis with 9 assists and Paul Masnick with 7 assists both breaking the previous mark of 6; most points in game by one player, three Saints had at least 10 points breaking the previous mark of 9; and defensemen Elliott Chorley scored six goals. The Mercurys probably set a new record sending 4 men into the nets in an attempt to stop the slaughter. The four netminders still managed to record 40 saves between them.
   I was going to look at a basketball game from 2005 in the American Basketball Association game, just not enough accurate information was available to write about it.
  Tomorrow we will look at three NHL All-Star games and on Tuesday we will make it up to the Basketball fans among our readers.