This date in history: The Caps participated in the longest shootout of all time

On this date in history (12/16/2014), the Caps and Panthers participated in the longest shootout ever. The epic 18-minute shootout featured rally helmets and a goal from the most unlikeliest of sources. Panthers forward Nick Bjugstad would mercilessly end the skills competition during the bottom of the 20th round.

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The most electrifying moment of the shootout occurred when Brooks Orpik scored at the top of the 17th round. The Caps lost their collective minds on the bench.

Here’s how Peter frantically recapped the action.

• Fehr didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Huberdeau didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Backstrom didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Bjugstad didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Kuznetsov didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Boyes didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Ovechkin PUT THE BISCUIT IN THE BASKET.
• Jokinen also put the biscuit in the basket.
• Brouwer didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Kopecky didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Latta didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• My god this is going long. Epix show is almost over by now.
• Barkov didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Brooks PUT THE BISCUIT IN THE BASKET.
• Bolland also put the biscuit in the basket. Harumph.
• Johansson didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Flash didn’t put the biscuit in the basket. He burned the biscuit.
• Schmidt didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Upshall didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Ward PUT THE BISCUIT IN THE BASKET.
• MacKenzie also put the biscuit in the basket. It never ends
• Carlson PUT THE BISCUIT IN THE BASKET.
• Bergenheim put the biscuit in the basket. This is my hell.
• Beagle didn’t put the biscuit in the basket, but shoulda been a biscuit-delivering beagle.
• Hayes didn’t put the biscuit in the basket. Life is meaningless and full of pain.
• Green didn’t didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Campbell didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Chimera’s biscuit missed the basket by a mile.
• Gudbranson didn’t put the biscuit in the basket. You can’t put a biscuit in the 5-hole.
• Wilson didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Ekblad didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Niskanen didn’t put the biscuit in the basket because the stupid crossbar.
• Kulikov didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• BORPIK PUT THE BISCUIT IN THE BASKET!!!!
• Olsen didn’t put the biscuit in the basket. 17 rounds down.
• Alzner didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Mitchell didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Backstrom, part II, didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Jokinen, part II, didn’t put the biscuit in the basket. I no longer fear death.
• Ovechkin didn’t put the biscuit in the basket.
• Bjudgstad put the biscuit in the basket! WINNER. FINALLY. I’M OKAY WITH THIS.

The shootout went five more rounds than the previous record, which also belonged to the Caps: a 15-round loss to the New York Rangers on Nov. 26, 2005.

More from the NHL:

The longest shootout in NHL history finally ends when Nick Bjugstad scores in the bottom of the 20th round to give the Florida Panthers a 2-1 victory against the Washington Capitals at BB&T Center.

Bjugstad freezes goaltender Braden Holtby with a quick fake, moves the puck to his forehand and fires high into an open net, capping a tiebreaker that takes 17:43. It comes on Bjugstad’s second try in the shootout (each team uses all 18 skaters and has to start over again), and after Roberto Luongo makes a save on Alex Ovechkin to begin the 20th round.

The Capitals take the lead on five occasions only to have the Panthers tie the game each time. The 11 combined goals also are a record for the shootout.

Headline image: Eliot J. Schechter