Sunday! June 14, 2026!

A rematch of the 2004 matchup between Calgary & Tampa Bay.

Calgary was the first seed winning 55 games in the regular season. Tampa won 46 as the third seed.

Game 6 in Amalie Arena. Tampa leads 3-2 in the series.

Tampa’s wearing their classic home uniforms from their ’04 run while Calgary wore their red home jerseys with the black font/numbers, not golden.

Calgary scores a goal to take the 3-1 lead with 3 minutes and a second to go.

Motivating the other team, Tampa responds a quick answer 31 seconds later to cut the lead back to one with 2:30.

A minute later, a Calgary player loses the puck and turns it back over to a Tampa player to strike & score the tying goal. 1:28 left. \[Between 62 seconds. 31+31=62!\]

Nearly a half a minute later, Tampa was in Calgary territory trying to take the lead. A Bolt player got tripped! POWER PLAY TIME.

1:00 to go, a face off in Calgary territory is deflected right through the Tampa player behind and perfectly strikes through the goalie and TAKES THE LEAD!!! WOW. 0:57 to go!!! \[1:28-1:00 = 28 seconds ticked off. 1:00-0:57 3 seconds ticked off. 28-3!\] (Tampa tied & took the lead in a span of 31 seconds.)

The crowd goes wild!!!!!

In the final seconds, Calgary tried a desperate push to tie it back up…Tampa busted through their empty net and scored again on time just before the final buzzer.

Horn man just goes crazy! Siren blaring off!

Tampa has won their Fourth Stanley Cup! A half of their titles against the Calgary Flames!

News headlines read such as: “Tampa pulled the impossible! Lightning in a bottle?!?! “Calgary blew a 3-1 lead with 3:01 to go!” “Calgary’s season shot down in Flames!”

Fans dubbed this as the “Cowtown Countdown”

Between the Falcons-Patriots Super Bowl and this game was 9 years, 129 days. 9 + 60 + 60 = 129! February 5th, 2017 was the 36th day of 2017. June 14th was the 165th day of 2026.

36 x 6 = 216 45 x 5 = 245. They are both nearly close to adding up to the year itself. Whether there’s a zero in the number or not. Also helping the fact that the Flames used to be in Atlanta.