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Ryan Potulny scored at 2:58 of the fifth overtime to give the Philadelphia Phantoms a 3-2 victory over the Albany River Rats early Friday in the longest game in American Hockey League's 72-year history.

Michael Leighton made 98 saves for the River Rats, and Scott Munroe stopped 65 shots for the Phantoms, who took a club-record 101 shots (breaking the previous mark of 64).

An AHL spokesman told the Albany Times Union that Leighton's 98 saves is believed to be a record, surpassing the 83 saves Ty Conklin made for Hamilton in the game that previously held the record as the league's longest. He made 62 of his 98 saves in the five overtimes, including 20 in the first OT alone.

At 12:38 a.m., just two minutes into the fifth overtime, the Phantoms took their 100th shot, the Times Union reported. The shots-on-goal counter on the scoreboard, unable to deal with the three-digit situation, clicked to "0."