December 23, 1982: Chaminade Upsets Virginia

December 23, 1982: The biggest upset in the history of college basketball occurs.

In the 1981-82 season, the University of Virginia went 30-4, and finished the regular season ranked Number 3 in the country, led by 7-foot-4 center Ralph Sampson and future NBA coach Rick Carlisle. But they only split their regular-season games against the University of North Carolina, and lost by 1 point in overtime to the University of Maryland on the last day of the season, so they had to share the Atlantic Coast Conference title. They lost to Carolina in the ACC Tournament Championship Game. And they only got to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, losing to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Nevertheless, Sampson would return, and they entered the 1982-83 season ranked Number 1. They played in a tournament in Tokyo, Japan, where they beat the University of Houston, led by Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler; and the University of Utah. Before making the trip, they had hoped to schedule a game against the University of Hawaii for their return trip, but couldn't. Another Hawaii school stepped in. And so, the Virginia Cavaliers went into that game 8-0, and still Number 1.

The Hawaii school in question was Chaminade University of Honolulu. It was (and remains) a Catholic school, run by the Society of Mary, founded by Father William Joseph Chaminade, a priest who barely survived persecution during the French Revolution. The school competed in the NAIA, roughly equivalent to NCAA Division IV. Their teams are known as the Silverswords, not for actual swords, but for a plant that thrives in Hawaii's tropical climate.

This was only their 8th season of varsity basketball. They had previously played Virginia 3 times, including the season before, losing all 3 games by wide margins. Despite now having the home-court advantage, there was no reason to expect them to give the Cavs much of a challenge.

The game was played at the Honolulu International Center, which opened in 1964, and is best known as the location of Elvis Presley's Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite concert of January 14, 1973. The building still stands, named the Neal S. Blaisdell Center for the Mayor who got it built, and a statue of Elvis stands outside.

But on this night, reflecting the fact that hosts Chaminade seemed to be terribly overmatched, only 3,383 of the arena's 8,800 seats were filled. Tipoff was 7:40 PM Hawaii time -- 1:40 AM Eastern Time. The game was not broadcast on ESPN.

And the only non-Hawaii, non-Virginia sportswriter covering the game was Michael Wilbon of The Washington Post. He was in Honolulu to cover the Aloha Bowl on Christmas Day, since one of the Post's local teams, the University of Maryland, was in it. (Maryland lost, 21-20 to the University of Washington.)

Fans of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, which Wilbon has co-hosted with fellow former Post columnist Tony Kornheiser since 2001, know that he will watch any basketball game, anywhere, anytime. As an ACC team and a rival of Maryland, he had some familiarity with the Virginia team. He probably decided, "What the heck, I'm gonna cover it. Maybe there'll be a story here." His instinct served him well.

On defense, Chaminade double-teamed Sampson, sometimes triple-teaming him. On offense, they tried to fast-break their way to jump shots. They jumped out to leads of 6-2, 15-10 and 19-12. Virginia caught up, but were unlucky, as it seemed like their shots just would not go in. At the half, it was tied, 43-43.

Virginia jumped out to a lead in the 2nd half, but Chaminade scored 7 straight points to tie it, 56-56. Right after this, Sampson made a turnaround jump shot to put Virginia back on top. But this was followed by Mark Rodrigues sending an alley-oop pass to Tim Dunham (not Tim Duncan), who dunked over Sampson. Chaminade's Richard Haenisch said, "After that play, I think we all got the feeling we could actually win."

With just under 6 minutes to go, Chaminade took a 64-62 lead. With 35 seconds to go, Chaminade led 74-72. Virginia missed 3 shots, and a foul sent Chaminade to the free throw line. Sampson only scored 12 points, although he added 17 rebounds. It wasn't enough: Chaminade won, 77-72. An NAIA team had beaten the Number 1 team in the country.

The game ended after 3:00 AM on the East Coast. At ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, Chris Berman and Tom Mees were anchoring SportsCenter, and the machine on their desk that showed scores showed "VIRGINIA 72 CHAMINADE 77." Berman, not having footage to show, said, "We can't tell you what happened, but the Number 1 team in college basketball has lost to... " He paused, and said, "We don't even know who they are." He probably didn't even know how to pronounce it: "SHAM-in-AHD."

Now, everybody knew who Chaminade were. That was almost not the case: Their board of trustees was considering changing the school's name to the University of Honolulu. They couldn't change it now: The brand name had become too good. (There was precedent: Only a year after shocking the basketball world by winning the 1966 NCAA Tournament, Texas Western University changed its name to the University of Texas at El Paso.)

Virginia finished the regular season 29-5, again sharing the regular-season ACC title with North Carolina, losing the ACC Tournament Final to North Carolina State, and losing to N.C. State again in the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight, as Jim Valvano's Wolfpack won the National Championship, to cap a season of upsets.

Chaminade finished the season 34-5, ranked Number 1 in NAIA, and got to the Semifinals of the NAIA Tournament. They were no fluke: They beat Louisville later in that 1982-83 season (in which Louisville made the NCAA Final Four) and in 1983-84. Also in 1983-84, they beat Southern Methodist University, then ranked Number 3.

In honor of their legendary upset of Virginia, the Maui Invitational was created in 1984, in which Chaminade compete with 7 major college teams. They now compete in NCAA Division II, in the Pacific West Conference, with fellow Hawaii teams Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu and the University of Hawaii at Hilo, in Hilo on Hawai'i, a.k.a. The Big Island. But Chaminade have never won a Conference Championship, or made the Division II Final Four.

In 2018, Virginia would suffer another embarrassing upset, becoming the first 1st seed in an NCAA Tournament to lose to a 16th seed, the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. They rebounded to win the National Championship the next season.

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December 23, 1982 was a Thursday. Baseball was out of season. Football was in midweek. There were 7 games played in the NBA:

* The New Jersey Nets beat the Washington Bullets, 97-90 at the Brendan Byrne Arena at the Meadowlands.

* The Denver Nuggets beat the Detroit Pistons, 135-127 at the Silverdome in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac, Michigan. Alex English scored 43 points for the Nuggets.

* The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Atlanta Hawks, 101-90 at the Milwaukee Exposition, Convention Center and Arena, or "The MECCA." Since 2014, it has been named the UW-Panther Arena.

* The Phoenix Suns beat the Dallas Mavericks, 125-106 at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

* The Los Angeles Lakers beat the San Diego Clippers, 120-115 at the San Diego Sports Arena. (It's now the Pechanga Arena.)

* The Portland Trail Blazers beat the Houston Rockets, 88-82 at the Portland Memorial Coliseum.

* And the Seattle SuperSonics beat the Golden State Warriors, 120-95 at the Seattle Center Coliseum.

And there were 7 games played in the NHL:

* The New York Islanders lost to the Washington Capitals, 5-1 at the Nassau Coliseum.

* The Quebec Nordiques beat their arch-rivals, the Montreal Canadiens, 6-3 at the Colisée de Québec.

* The Boston Bruins beat the Hartford Whalers, 5-1 at the Hartford Civic Center (now the PeoplesBank Arena).

* The Detroit Red Wings beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 6-4 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

* The St. Louis Blues beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 7-3 at the St. Louis Arena.

* The Edmonton Oilers beat the Los Angeles Kings, 6-2 at The Forum outside Los Angeles in Inglewood, California.

* And the Calgary Flames beat the Vancouver Canucks, 6-3 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver.

November 2, 1995: The Yankees Hire "Clueless" Joe Torre

November 2, 1995: The New York Yankees name Joe Torre as their new manager‚ replacing Buck Showalter.

Torre had been a good catcher with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves in the 1960s, a decent 1st baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals in the early 1970s, and a very good hitter throughout his playing career.

His managing was another matter. He managed the New York Mets in the late 1970s, and he didn't have much to work with. He managed the Braves in the early 1980s, and got them to a Division title in 1982 and almost to another in 1983, but that was it. He managed the Cardinals in the 1990s, and didn't get too far.

The Cardinals fired him in 1995, and he thought he'd never manage again. "I'd run out of teams," he said, noting that he'd played for 3 teams, and managed all of them. He'd been a broadcaster between his Braves and Cardinals jobs, and figured he'd go back into the broadcast booth, and that's how he'd finish out his days in baseball.

Then George Steinbrenner called to offer him the Yankee managing job. Joe had never played in the American League, let alone managed in it. But George thought he was the guy.

The New York Daily News didn't think so: Citing his lackluster managerial record up until then, and also the circus that tended to surround Steinbrenner, especially where managers were concerned, they printed the headline "CLUELESS JOE," a play on early baseball star "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. As a Yankee Fan, I will admit: I was very skeptical about this hire.

The results: World Champions in his 1st season, 1996. Wild Card in 1997. World Champions in 1998, winning more games than any team ever had in a regular season and postseason combined, 125, including a 4-game sweep in the World Series. World Champions in 1999, including the best postseason record of the 1995-present Division Series era, 11-1. World Champions in 2000, beating the Mets in the World Series. American League Champions in 2001, missing another title by 1 run. Division Champions in 2002. AL Champions in 2003, with the dramatic AL Championship Series win over the Boston Red Sox.

Then, of course, the downturn, the kind of things that the Daily News probably expected when it printed the headline. A shocking ALCS loss in 2004. Pathetic performances in the AL Division Series in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Joe got lowballed by George's heirs, of both the family and the business variety: His sons Hank and Hal, Yankee brass Randy Levine and Lonn Trost, and general manager Brian Cashman. He walked out, and managed the Los Angeles Dodgers to a pair of Division titles, before taking a job in Major League Baseball's office.

Joe and the House of Steinbrenner made up. He's been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and is honored in Monument Park at the new Yankee Stadium.

The Daily News called him "CLUELESS JOE." They get reminded of that more than they do of "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD."

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November 2, 1995 was a Thursday. Baseball season had ended 5 days earlier, when the Atlanta Braves beat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series. There was a college football game, a big one, which decided the Atlantic Coast Conference title: Number 2 Florida State were upset by Number 24 Virginia, 33-28 at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The NBA season started the next day. There were 5 games played in the NHL:

* The New York Rangers lost to the Los Angeles Kings, 5-3 at The Forum outside Los Angeles in Inglewood, California.

* The New Jersey Devils and the San Jose Sharks played to a tie, 3-3 at the San Jose Arena (now the SAP Center).

* The Ottawa Senators beat the Hartford Whalers, 5-0 at the Hartford Civic Center (now the PeoplesBank Arena).

* In an "Original Six" matchup, the Detroit Red Wings beat the Boston Bruins, 6-5 at the brand-new FleetCenter (now the TD Garden) in Boston. Steve Yzerman scored with 3:50 left in overtime.

* And the Florida Panthers beat the Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1 at The Spectrum in Philadelphia.

June 14, 1953: The Atlantic Coast Conference Is Founded

June 14, 1953: The Atlantic Coast Conference is founded. Although it's had its moments in other sports, the ACC is best known for basketball, where it is often regarded as the best college league.

Like the Southeastern Conference, founded 20 years earlier, the ACC was made up of members of the Southern Conference. That league had banned postseason appearances in 1951, and most of its schools didn't like it.

So these 7 broke away, and formed their own league: Clemson University, in Clemson, South Carolina; Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina; the University of Maryland, in College Park; the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University, in Raleigh; the University of South Carolina, in Columbia; and Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, South Carolina. Six months later, on December 4, the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, was admitted as an 8th member.

The ACC first scheduled games against racially integrated teams, and then integrated their own schools and teams, years before the SEC did so. In 1960, the ACC implemented a minimum SAT score for incoming student-athletes of 750, the first conference to do so. This minimum was raised to 800 in 1964, but was ultimately struck down by a federal court in 1972.

In 1971, South Carolina left the ACC to become an independent, later joining the SEC. In 1979, former SEC member Georgia Institute of Technology, a.k.a. Georgia Tech, of Atlanta, joined for all sports except football, for which they joined in 1983. Florida State University, in Tallahassee, joined for all sports but football in 1991, and for football in 1992.

The ACC began raiding the Big East Conference early in the 21st Century: The University of Miami and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, a.k.a. Virginia Tech joined in 2004; Boston College of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, jumped in 2005; The University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, and Syracuse University, in New York, joined in 2013. Also in 2013, the University of Notre Dame, an independent, joined the ACC in all sports except football and hockey. (BC is the only ACC school with a hockey team.)

However, in 2012, Maryland announced it was leaving the ACC for the Big Ten Conference, effective 2014. Rutgers University, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, which would have seemed like a prime ACC target, left the Big East for the Big Ten on the same schedule.

And in 2023, effective with the 2024 Fall sports season, the ACC voted to admit 3 new members that are most definitely nowhere near the Atlantic Coast: The University of California, in Berkeley; their arch-rivals, Stanford University, of Palo Alto, California, also in the San Francisco Bay Area; and Southern Methodist University, a.k.a. SMU, of Dallas, Texas.

The major rivalries are intra-state: Virginia vs. Virginia Tech; The 3-way "neighborhood" rivalry of Duke, UNC and N.C. State; Clemson vs. South Carolina; and Miami vs. Florida. There are also notable interconference rivalries: Florida vs. Florida State, Florida vs. Miami, Georgia vs. Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh vs. Penn State, Pittsburgh vs. West Virginia, and, no longer intraconference, Maryland vs. Virginia.

Although there has been some great football played in the ACC, particularly since the joining of Miami and Florida State, who both became national powers in the 1980s, the league is known for its basketball teams.

The ACC Tournament, usually held in the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the best conference tournament in the country. Duke vs. North Carolina is the basketball equivalent of football's Ohio State vs. Michigan or Alabama vs. Auburn. North Carolina have won 6 NCAA Tournaments, Duke 5, N.C. State 2; and 1 each by Syracuse, Maryland and Virginia. In women's hoops, South Carolina have won 2, and North Carolina and Maryland have each won 1. (UPDATE: In 2024, South Carolina won a 3rd.)

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June 14, 1953 was a Sunday. In that era, baseball teams tended to play doubleheaders on the Sunday:

* The New York Yankees swept the Cleveland Indians, 6-2 and 3-0. Johnny Sain started the opener, but the Yankees trailed Bob Lemon and the Tribe 2-0 going into the 7th inning. They scored 1 run in the 7th, 3 in the 8th and 2 in the 9th to make a winning pitcher out of Bob Kuzava. Vic Raschi pitched a 3-hit shutout in the nightcap. Over the 2 games, Mickey Mantle went 2-for-9 with an RBI, and Yogi Berra went 2-for-9 with a home run and 6 RBIs.

* The New York Giants were swept by the St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0 and 9-4 at the Polo Grounds. Harvey Haddix pitched a 5-hit shutout in the 1st game, beating Sal Maglie. Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell won the 2nd game, beating Rubén Gómez. Stan Musial went 1-for-6 with 3 walks and an RBI. Willie Mays was unavailable to the Giants, still serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

* The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs, 6-3 at Ebbets Field. They were leading the 2nd game, 6-2 going into the top of the 9th, but Ralph Kiner hit a grand slam home run off Carl Erskine. The game was stopped after the 9th, tied 6-6, due to the curfew then in place: No inning may start after 7:00 PM on a Sunday. Jackie Robinson went 4-for-8 with a walk and 3 RBIs.

* A doubleheader was split at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia. The Cincinnati Reds won the 1st game, 2-1. The Philadelphia Phillies won the 2nd game, 4-1.

* The Milwaukee Braves swept the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-3 and 8-0 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Bob Buhl pitched a 2-hit shutout in the 2nd game.

* The Washington Senators beat the Detroit Tigers, 6-1 at Briggs Stadium (later Tiger Stadium) in Detroit.

* The Chicago White Sox swept the Boston Red Sox, 6-0 and 1-0 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. In the 1st game, Billy Pierce allows only a double to Del Wilber, a single to Jimmy Piersall, and a walk to Dick Gernert. Sandy Consuegra gave up 8 hits in the 2nd game, but kept the shutout. Ted Williams was unavailable to the Red Sox, still serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War.

* The Philadelphia Athletics swept the St. Louis Browns, 4-1 and 3-1 at Busch Stadium (formerly Sportsman's Park) in St. Louis.

March 16, 2018: The 1st 16th Seed to Beat a 1st Seed

March 16, 2018: Since the expansion of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament to 64 teams made it possible in 1985, no 16th-seeded team had ever beaten a 1st-seeded team. Until this night.

A 14th seed had beaten a 3rd seed 21 times, starting in 1986, when it happened twice: Cleveland State beat Indiana, and Arkansas-Little Rock beat Notre Dame. A 15th seed had beaten a 2nd seed 8 times, starting in 1991, when the University of Richmond beat Syracuse. 

But a 16 beating a 1? Never. Not in the men's tournament, anyway. In the women's tournament, in 1998, 16th seed Harvard beat Number 1 Stanford. But in men's NCAA Tournament games, to that point, 16th seeds were 0-135 against 1st seeds. The closest call had been on March 17, 1989, when coach Pete Carril's slowdown offense nearly led Princeton past Georgetown at the Providence Civic Center (now the Amica Mutual Pavilion), only to fall, 50-49.

But on March 16, 2018, the Spectrum Center in Charlotte hosted a 1st Round game. The University of Virginia were seeded 1st in the South Regional Bracket and 1st overall in the Tournament. Their head coach was named Tony Bennett, which was somewhat appropriate: Tony Bennett the singer had a hit song titled "Rags to Riches," and Tony Bennett the coach took the Cavaliers from 15-16 in his 1st season with them to 22-10 2 years later. He had led them to Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season titles in 2014 and '15, to win the ACC Tournament in 2014, and to the Elite Eight in 2016. In 2018, they had won the ACC "double": Both the regular-season title and the tournament.

Their opponents in the 1st Round were 16th seeded UMBC. Not the University of Maryland, a historic rival for UVa, but the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Based in the Baltimore suburb of Catonsville, and with an arena seating 4,625, the Retrievers had been to the Division I Tournament only once before, in 2008, although they reached the Elite Eight of the Division II Tournament in 1979.

They were coached by Ryan Odom, and entered the game 24-10, and as Champions of the America East Conference. They were no pushovers, but had they lost their Conference Tournament's Final, it's unlikely they would have been invited to "The Big Dance."

Odom's father was Dave Odom, a former assistant coach to Terry Holland at Virginia, and remembered sitting near his father as the Cavaliers made the Final Four in 1984. Dave would later coach Wake Forest, including Tim Duncan, to the 1995 ACC Championship.

A few minutes before the game began, another game ended: Kansas State defeated Creighton. Kansas State would face the winner of this game, which everyone presumed would be Virginia, who were listed as 20.5-point favorites.

But UMBC hung close to UVa throughout the 1st half. Late in the half, Virginia took a 6-point lead, but at halftime, the game was tied, 21-21.

Early in the 2nd half, UMBC went on runs of 7-2, 6-2, 10-4 and 5-0. Virginia led the nation in "scoring defense," holding opponents to 53.4 points per game, but were outscored 53-33 in the last 20 minutes. The final score was UMBC 74, UVa 54. Jairus Lyles led all scorers with 28 points.

It wasn't quite the biggest upset in terms of points in NCAA Tournament history: In 2012, 2nd seed Missouri was favored by 21.5 points, but lost to 15th seed Norfolk State. But it was the biggest seeding upset in Tournament history.

It was the biggest win ever by a college basketball team in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The University of Maryland's main campus is in College Park, inside the Capital Beltway. There is a University of Baltimore, but it has had no athletic program since 1983. Historically-black Morgan State won the NCAA Championship in Division II in 1974, and has made the Division I Tournament twice since, but has never won a game in it. Coppin State won a 1st Round game in 1997, over South Carolina, one of those 15th seeds beating a 2nd.

After the game, Bennett said, "We had a hard time with their mobile fours and their four guards. I don’t know what to say but that. That was a thorough butt-whipping." He added, "This is life. It can't define you. You enjoyed the good times and you gotta be able to take the bad times."

Immediately afterward, on Twitter, I checked on college basketball's most famous fan, and its most famous announcer, ESPN's Dick Vitale, and wrote:

I just checked Dick Vitale's Twitter feed. He's okay. I worried that the most mad March Madness moment ever might have made his famously bald head explode.

Nope, he saw the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC) beat the University of Virginia, and become the 1st 16th seed to defeat a 1st seed in NCAA Tournament history.

For those of you from outside America: Imagine Manchester City getting knocked out of the FA Cup by Kidderminster Harriers.

Two nights later, UMBC gave it a good shot, but lost to Kansas State by 7. After the 2021 season, Odom was hired away by Utah State.

It was the most embarrassing loss in Virginia basketball history, but not the most famous: Just before Christmas 1982, as the Number 1 team in the country, they lost to host Chaminade, then an NAIA school, in a holiday tournament in Honolulu.

Just as Tony Bennett the singer once sang, "I wanna be around to pick up the pieces," Tony Bennett the coach was. A loss like that can devastate a team, or it can convince them to get off the deck and show the world who they really are. In 2018-19, Virginia went 35-3, and won the school's 1st National Championship.

UPDATE: A 16th seed beat a 1st seed again on March 17, 2023, when Fairleigh Dickinson University of Rutherford, New Jersey beat Purdue University, 63-58 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

After that 2019 National Championship, Bennett never won another NCAA Tournament game. Just before the start of the 2024-25 season, Bennett left the Virginia job, "retiring" at the age of 55. With unregulated NIL money and transfers, he said he was "no longer equipped" to coach modern college basketball, and said he hopes these new aspects of the college basketball landscape will be better regulated in time.

After one season with Bennett assistant Ron Sanchez as an interim head coach, UVa hired as their head coach for 2025-26... Ryan Odom of UMBC. 

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March 16, 2018 was a Thursday. Baseball was in Spring Training. Football was out of season. There were 6 games played in the NBA that night:

* The Brooklyn Nets lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 120-116 at the Wells Fargo Center (now the Xfinity Mobile Arena) in Philadelphia.

* The Boston Celtics beat the Orlando Magic, 92-83 at the Amway Center in Orlando. (It's now named the Kia Center.)

* The Toronto Raptors beat the Dallas Mavericks, 122-115 in overtime at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.

* The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Clippers, 121-113 at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. (It's now named the Paycom Center.)

* The Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers, 92-91 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (It's now named the Crypto.com Arena.)

* The Sacramento Kings beat the Golden State Warriors, 98-98 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena (then named the Oracle Arena).

And there were 6 games in the NHL:

* The New York Islanders lost to the Washington Capitals, 6-3 at the Capital One Arena in Washington.

* The Ottawa Senators beat the Dallas Stars, 3-2 at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa. Mike Hoffman scored the winning goal with 1:34 left in overtime.

* The Nashville Predators beat the Colorado Avalanche, 4-2 at the Pepsi Center in Denver. (It's now named the Ball Arena.)

* The San Jose Sharks beat the Calgary Flames, 7-4 at the Saddledome in Calgary.

* The Minnesota Wild beat the Vegas Golden Knights, 4-2 at the T-Mobile Arena in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada.

* And the Anaheim Ducks beat the Detroit Red Wings, 4-2 at the Honda Center in Anaheim.