Pete Kelly, a right wing on the team, described his memories of Bruneteau's goal. That set me right back on my heels."īOOK EXCERPT: How Chris Osgood built a home in HockeytownīOOK EXCERPT: When the Detroit Red Wings made Steve Yzerman cry "I really found out how tired I was afterwards, when we went to the Lumberjacks Club in Montreal and I had one bottle of ale. "When I saw the red light go on to end the game, I thought, 'School's out!' I was very happy it finally ended. "Near the end, the pads and equipment were getting heavy from being soaked with sweat and water," he said. Smith began to feel the strain after the first couple overtime periods. But as it got longer and longer into the game, I seemed to settle down." "Of course, I had no idea how long the game would eventually last. "When I went into the game, I had some butterflies," Smith said. Shots on goal weren't recorded then, but Smith is generally considered to have made either 91 or 92 saves. (The Wings had won their second straight regular-season title, drawing a bye in the first round.) He led the NHL that season in minutes played (3,030) and victories (24), and played all of the Wings' seven games in the two rounds of the best-of-five playoffs. Smith, who was only 5 feet 7 and 165 pounds, played a huge part in the lore created by the '35-36 team. We were real good."ĭetroit Red Wings book excerpt: The men who buried the Dead Wings
"But I do remember I had a pretty good club in front of me. "I can't remember everything that happened 50 years ago," Smith said in a 1986 interview in the Detroit Free Press.
Detroit goaltender Normie Smith earned the shutout with more than 90 saves. Mud Bruneteau, a rookie who had been called up two weeks earlier, scored at 16:30 of the sixth overtime, beating Maroon goaltender Lorne Chabot to win the game, 1-0. at the Forum in Montreal, and ended at 2:25 a.m. (Back then, there were eight teams in the NHL, divided into the American division and Canadian division.) The game began at 8:30 p.m. It was Game 1 of the semifinal between the Wings and the Montreal Maroons, on March 24, 1936.
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