Canadians set Guinness record for longest hockey game

The Guinness World Record for playing the longest hockey game in the world has now been set by forty female hockey players.

The group of women hockey players said that breaking the record was not the biggest reward. They said that the biggest reward was being able to raise over $125,000 for cystic fibrosis, as well as raising awareness for the cause. The hockey players broke the record on Monday. They played for 10 days and 243 hours and five minutes. After the game finished, dozens of red roses were thrown onto the ice rink of the Burnaby Eight Rinks. Almost 2,500 goals were scored and 290 Courtney Bree Healey scored 290 of them, according to the Vancouver Sun. Val Skelly is a sales manager at Richport Ford Lincoln and she spearheaded the event, known as the Long Game 4 CF. Skelly said that it was not about the scoring, it was about the miracle of the human spirit. According to CTV, the event took two years of planning. Angie and Catrina are a mother-daughter pair who attended the game. Cystic fibrosis has touched the pair because Catrina’s sister died from it at the young age of 22. The hockey players’ age ranged from 17 to 44, according to Voices of America. The hockey game was played with opposing squads made up of five players and one goalie on each side. Players played sessions that ran for four hours per group, which was then followed by four-hour food breaks, sleep and medical attention, while the other players would take to the ice. Almost 2,500 goals were scored all together.