The National Hockey League was forced to postpone the first game of the first-round playoff series between the Boston Bruins and the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night when the Tampa Bay Lightning blue Jackets and Columbus began a fifth period of overtime.

Both games scheduled at Scotiabank Arena in the league bubble in Toronto.

Due to the duration of the Lightning-Blue Jackets game, the first game between @NHLBruins and @Canes, originally scheduled for 8:00 p.m. TODAY’s ET: rescheduled for Wednesday, August 12 at 11:00 a.m. ET.

Boston and Carolina will now begin their series wednesday at 11 a.m. ET.

The Blue Jackets and Lightning started playing at 3 p.m. He and we were still on the ice at nine o’clock at night. And in the middle of the fourth-longest game in NHL history, which ended in the middle of the fifth era when the Lightning emerged with a 3-2 victory.

The Bruins and Hurricanes were originally scheduled for 8 p.m. Release the ET disc. Even if they could have played, it’s hard to believe that the Toronto ice would have been in a wonderful way.

Columbus goalkeeper Joonas Korpisalo set an NHL record from 1955-56 with 85 saves, as both groups remained in the two-goal impasse to Brayden Point, the winner of the game, at 10:27 in the fifth overtime.

The Blue Jackets’ defenseman, Seth Jones, set his own record of maximum ice time with 65:06, or more than a regular-season game and the price of minutes.

Seth Jones set up a new one for a game YOU: 63:55 and counting https://t.co/fCz5DFzDg3

Carolina, at least online, gave the impression of falling in the wake, sending a series of tweets, adding one mocking a Lightning Statement after the club was swept away from the first playoff circular last year after a record 62 wins. Season.

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