A Long Decade: 10 years ago, May 20, 2002

Veteran winger Louie DeBrusk and his mates on Hamilton’s fourth line take over at the end of this Monday night at the Arena at Harbor Yard. He has a good chance on a backhander early in overtime that Rick DiPietro stops, but he scores 9:10 into overtime, his third pro playoff goal (the first two were in the NHL), to beat Bridgeport 3-2 and force a seventh game. Bridgeport outshoots Hamilton 32-14 and takes leads of 1-0 (Ray Giroux, his first of the playoffs, on the power play in the first) and 2-1 (Raffi Torres, extending his playoff scoring streak to 10 games, two longer than the team’s longest in the regular season). But Peter Sarno ties it 43 seconds later, with 7:41 left. Game 7 is two nights later.

Michael Fornabaio