“It went amazing,” Kate Gallagher, one of the event’s organizers, said in an interview.
The event, which had special rules this year to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, was first started in 2003 by eye doctor Brent Saik, who lost his father to cancer. He kept it going after his wife also died from the disease.Players, who were in an “NHL-style bubble,” had to deal with an extreme cold weather warning that persisted for much of the 10 days.
Goalie Andrew Buchanan celebrates as his team score a goal while taking part in the World’s Longest Hockey Game near Edmonton on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021.“The players were troupers. They were warriors,” said Gallagher, who noted that they finished with sore bodies and blistered toes, but no major injuries.“We had people watching the livestream from Florida and Michigan, and people donating from all over Canada and the U.S.