Bottle Rockets

[PuckThumper11]

I've never heard of this until tonight. As I'm sure many of you know, this refers to when a goal breaks the goalie's water bottle. Is this a really old term? I mean, how can you break a plstic bottle? Haha. Anyone have any examples? I've never seen this. Thanks, hockey fans!

 

[Llamamoto]

 

[Akrapovince]

I think in the NHL there’s a strap to hold the water bottle down, but when I was playing minor hockey the sickest goals were when you roofed the puck and knocked the water bottle off haha.

I don’t think our shots were ever hard enough to make the bottle explode however.

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

I think in the NHL there’s a strap to hold the water bottle down, but when I was playing minor hockey the sickest goals were when you roofed the puck and knocked the water bottle off haha.

I don’t think our shots were ever hard enough to make the bottle explode however.

I remember well we did the same thing. You could shot off the cap of the bottle or at least damage it, when the angle was correct.

 

[PuckThumper11]

LOL. Wow! That was great! Thanks for posting!

 

[StupidGenius]

The old water bottle popper was more prevalent when the water bottle was kept on top of the net. The NHL moved them a handful of years back, presumably to help with the overhead angle for goal reviews.

I dont have the clip, but someone perfectly unscrewed a water bottle cap with a shot attempt during play this year.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Crosby's first shootout winner against Montreal always comes to mind when I think about water bottles flying off the back of the net. Not sure if that one broke the bottle itself but it's still a cool visual.

 

[OKR]

Datsyuk had one against Ducks in the playoffs 2013, well it didn’t smash the bottle but broke it/or the cup holder.

 

[1 Timer]

Never heard the term but if you hit the bottle just right its not that hard. Especially when the bottle is sitting on top of the net in a cold rink.

 

[Simpo]

This was a good one earlier this season. Fun game, throwback unis, overtime winner, SPLOOSH!

 

[Ratsreign]

The old water bottle popper was more prevalent when the water bottle was kept on top of the net. The NHL moved them a handful of years back, presumably to help with the overhead angle for goal reviews.

I dont have the clip, but someone perfectly unscrewed a water bottle cap with a shot attempt during play this year.

Hoffman had one that launched the cap straight up and over the glass, I don't remember which game it was, though.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

Bottles don't really explode these days because they're not made of that super brittle variety of plastic. My beer league goalie had one of those, I shattered the shit out of it with a shot in warmups while he was out of the net. Someone went without water that game, and it wasn't the goalie.

 

[PuckThumper11]

This was a good one earlier this season. Fun game, throwback unis, overtime winner, SPLOOSH!

LOL. That cap went flying! Great post!

 

[Dr Pepper]

Bump.

 

[PuckThumper11]

Bump.

Beat me to it!! Haha. I'm still gonna post it anyway. Ha.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

I miss when the bottle would just sit up top of the net- goalies usually had it in the blocker corner, made for a nice target. Now it pretty much only happens on the one timer from that one angle, not as fun as when it was similar to a bar-down shot.