3-skaters-against-5-skaters goals?

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The Panther

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By chance, I saw the following clip today from April 4th 1988 (the clip incorrectly says '1987'), game 3 of the Edmonton - Winnipeg playoff series:

Mark Messier scores a short-handed goal after Randy Carlyle falls on his ass (ties the game at 3-3, but the Jets would go on to win -- their first playoff win over Edmonton in 13 tries). What's interesting about the goal is that the Oil were 2-men shorthanded at the time, with both Grant Fuhr and Dave Hannan penalized at the time. I watched this game when I was 12, but I didn't remember this detail.

So, any other examples of NHL goals where the scoring team was down 3-men-against-5?
 
My mind immediately went to Brett Hull doing this in the mid 1990s against Detroit. I can remember it being a breakaway. I looked it up, and yes it did happen. April of 1995. Below is an unofficial list of the players that did this. Phil Housley did this. Why on earth Housley was on the penalty kill on a 5-on-3 is anybody's guess but it happened. For whatever reason this barely happened prior to the 2000s. I have no idea why this would be. Darryl Sittler is the first one, at least on this list, to ever have done it in 1980.

 
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Most of those (above) kind of make sense, but yeah, odd that Housley would be killing a 5 on 3. Mario Lemieux seems odd, too, but I guess if the Pens were down by a goal jate, you may as well roll the dice.
 

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