BUFFALO, N.Y. — It was just past 4 a.m. on Thursday when Andrew Tokasz decided it was time to inject some energy into a hockey game that was entering its seventh consecutive day.

Shortly after Team White’s Kenny Corp scored on a backhander from the slot to cut Team Blue’s lead to 1,073-1,058, Tokasz grabbed the nob of his stick as if it were a microphone and began singing along to the chorus of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” playing over the HarborCenter loudspeakers.

Why not belt out a couple of “sha-la-la lah-ti-das?” Anything to break the monotony when the stands are empty except for a janitor mopping the floor, and blisters are about the only things popping on the ice.

“That’s the toughest,” Kenny Haynes said, referring to playing the four-hour overnight shift of a game that began June 22 and isn’t scheduled to end until Monday morning.