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How is he going to set a record exactly?

Most saves in a game: Sam LoPresti, 80

The first-place Boston Bruins came out firing against the Black Hawks on March 4, 1941, setting an NHL record by firing 83 shots on goal -- a mark no team has come close to in nearly seven decades. The only reason the Hawks weren't run out of the building was a 24-year-old rookie goaltender named Sam LoPresti, who had only recently been called up from the minors to replace Paul Goodman.

The Minnesota native made 27 saves in the first period, 31 (on an NHL-record 33 shots) in the second and 22 more in the third, keeping the Hawks close in what became a 3-2 loss. Boston forward Johnny Crawford, when asked afterwards if LoPresti was good or just lucky, said "He was good all right -- if he hadn't been good, he wouldn't be alive now."

A couple of years later, LoPresti was lucky to be alive at all. After playing 47 games for the Hawks in 1941-42, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy; several months later, he was aboard a merchant ship that was torpedoed and spent 42 days on a lifeboat before being rescued.

LoPresti never played in the NHL again -- though his son, Pete, was an NHL goaltender for six seasons in the 1970s.

No one has come within 10 shots of facing as many shots as LoPresti -- the next-highest total is 70 saves on 73 shots by Quebec's Ron Tugnutt in a 3-3 tie at Boston on March 21, 1991. Since then, the most saves by a goaltender is the 58 made by the Islanders' Dwayne Roloson in a 4-3 overtime win at Toronto last Nov. 23.

I guess he'll have most saves in a shutout, but not saves in a game.