Amazing - wow! But good for the goalie for recovering from this gaffe and getting the big win last night.
Ted's Take
Amazing - wow! But good for the goalie for recovering from this gaffe and getting the big win last night.
The goal was indeed against the Pens on 3/8/06 but Fluery did not play that night it was Sebastian Caron. I was at the game and after that goal I wanted to put a brown paper bag over my head.
Actually, The Majesky goal was against Caron. See it here, #5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5hQeD71ns
The Majesky goal was against the Penguins and the goalie was Fleury.
Any response Ted to your old buddy Ronnie Wilson taking shots at the Caps and Ovechkin?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_farber/03/19/60.goals.notes/1.html
The Majesky goal (mentioned by 1995hoo) was against Ottawa. He dumped the puck in down the boards and went for a change and it hit a seam in the glass and went straight to the net. The goalie had gone to the back the net to slow up the puck for the defense…
This goal reminds me a bit of a Caps goal shortly before the last lockout. I believe it was Ivan Majesky who flipped the puck down the ice as he headed for the bench for a line change and the puck somehow bounced into the goal. Don’t remember who the opponent was. Not as long of a clearing attempt as this one, though.
Normally, Alex’s empty netter would have been the longest goal of the night…
Actually, Kevin Hatcher then of the Caps, scored one similarly in the 1994 playoffs. At MSG in Game 5 (which the Rangers would win on their way to the Cup), Hatcher was out penalty killing and went to clear the puck down the ice, he lobbed it in the air towards the Rangers end. It bounced in front of Mike Richter, took a strange hop, and went into the net over Richter’s shoulder.
The TV live shot didn’t have it, they were showing someone changing on the bench, and then they cut to the net and Richter shaking his head angrily and pulling the puck out.
Ironically, this game was Hatcher’s last as a Capital, as he held out the following offseason before the lock-out and after the lockout was traded to Dallas for Mark Tinordi (getting Tinordi was not a surprise as the Stars franchise traded their captain to Washington on two occasions from 1989 through 1994…)