The Stanley Cup Final game that never happened - May 24, 1988 at Boston Garden ( WSBK-TV Boston feed )

[Fenway]

I was in the building and it was dark but thankfully nobody panicked

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[The Panther]

Remember it well.

A slightly weird game to say the least. Glenn Anderson scored 10 seconds into the game, setting record for fastest goal in a finals' game.

Esa Tikkanen scored, and it looked like Edmonton would take the Cup that night.

Then... Boston scored three in a row. Rookie Glen Wesley scored twice (!), includng a shortie after the puck bounced away from Gretzky's stick as he was doing a pivot on the PP (thanks to the Garden's atrocious ice).

But then a costly penalty by Keith Crowder put Edmonton on the PP, and Craig Simpson (who'd just come out of the box himself) deflected in a shot to tie the game.

Seconds later, the lights went out.

I remember watching it with my Dad, and we were, like, "Oh crap! CBC blew a fuse." Then we found out the Boston Garden had suffered a paralytic stroke. Funny stuff.