from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

For 57 minutes, this was one of those games that make a hockey team. A game they’re talking about at the reunion 20 years from now.

Down to four defencemen at times, with winger Benoit Pouliot taking shifts on the back end, Edmonton had a 3-0 lead with 3:30 to play on the road.

And then, everything changed.

By the time Corey Perry scored at 6:57 of the second overtime period to complete a playoff comeback, the likes of which have never been accomplished before in the National Hockey League, the Oilers weren’t even talking about their collapse. They were talking once again about a goaltender interference call that wasn’t made on the ice, then upheld by the NHL’s Situation Room in Toronto.

“I don’t even know what goalie interference is anymore, to be perfectly honest,” said winger Milan Lucic. “Last game, it goes in blocker side and they bump his blocker. Tonight, they wrap their arm around our goalie’s leg and he can’t get up, and it’s still a goal.

“If someone knows, call me and tell me. Because it’s a shame that we are where we are right now with a call like that.”

Tweeted Oiler goalie Cam Talbot’s wife Kelly: “All I have to say is Bull sh--!!”

The Oilers are the first team in NHL history to cough up a three-goal lead with less then four minutes to play in a playoff game, and lose. But the biggest choke in playoff history was enabled by, frankly, an unfathomable call, when Ryan Kesler held Talbot’s pad with his arm, and Talbot couldn’t close the wickets in time to stop Rickard Rakell’s shot from sliding through the five-hole with 15 seconds left in the third period.

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Below, was the Sportsnet panel discuss the tying, questionable goal and the game highlights...