And lost badly.
lol, obviously. That's what makes Tucker so awesome. He loses 3/4 of his fights and keeps on coming.
If Patrick Eaves was on the bench back then, it may have been a different story
And lost badly.
Mario's "record" is like the player who misses the cycle because he legs out a double instead of stopping at first base. It's not recorded as a cycle and gets no historical place in a book, but it's just as effective, maybe even moreso, than the cycle.
I could argue that Sergei Fedorov scoring all 5 goals, including the OT winner, in a 5-4 win over Hartford was more meaningful than Mario's 5 goals, since one was just a gimme empty-netter.....