Ideal weather conditions allowed a couple of hockey guys in the State of Hockey to glide into the record book.
World record for longest ice hockey pass is set in the State of Hockey
February 27, 2019 at 12:12PM
The Guinness World Records has certified that the longest ice hockey pass was made on a mirror-smooth Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis late last fall.
The passer: hockey enthusiast Zach Lamppa, of Detroit Lakes. The recipient: Stanley Cup champion and Wild and Gophers analyst Tom Chorske.
A Guinness representative on hand for the Nov. 20 effort said that his bosses in London determined that the pass must exceed 894 feet, or the length of nearly 4½ NHL-size rinks.
With two stripes-wearing high school officials on hand to direct the effort to claim the record for this newly established category, Lamppa and Chorske were given a few practice tries. All came up short.
Notified that now was the time to make his first official long-distance pass, the lefthanded Lamppa loaded up and muscled a wrist shot that slid … and slid … and eased past the spray-painted mark before coming to a gentle rest on Chorske's blade. Distance: 904 feet and 4 inches.
While it wasn't exactly like hoisting the Stanley Cup as Chorske did as a New Jersey Devil in 1995, Lamppa was happy to receive the Guinness world record certificate just the same as a video crew wrapped up documentation.
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