Instances Where An Empty Net Miss Cost A Team A Big Game Or Entire Series?
- Thread starter GlitchMarner
- Start date
Super Hans
Stats Evangelist
- Oct 9, 2016
- 4,606
- 12,636
All those empty net goals Rantanen was racking up last fall made Avs management feel he was expendable, so there's a case where ENGs made eliminated them.
Patrik Stefan is a true badass.
He didn't want to merely settle for an ENG (even though it would have capped off a solid outing for him with his second goal of the game).
Whatever the Oilers did to him, he wanted them to suffer for years and years for it.
Fear the wrath of Stefan.
Well, we did sign his son as a prospect a few years ago.
Revenge is a dish best served cold
Bjornar Moxnes
Stem Rødt og Felix Unger Sörum
Surprisingly not since the Oilers still lost that game.
tarheelhockey
Offside Review Specialist
Not NHL but the 2009 world Juniors in an elimination game, where Eberly scores after a Russian player Nikita Klyukin (who died in the Russian plane crash in 2011) misses empty net.
Last edited:
Extra point the Oilers received put them ahead of Chicago in the standings. Chicago won the lottery, drafted Kane. He went on to score the Stanley Cup winning goal against the Flyers (and then a couple more Cups).
Mr Nogatco
In Nguyen Demarco We Trust
- Apr 3, 2021
- 1,849
- 11,113
I'm still haunted by this clip.
Not by the goal though, by the girl they pan to in the crowd who goes to high five her friend and gets left hanging : (
HabsQC
Registered User
Women Olympics, Sochi, USA vs Canada in the finals.
USA hits the post on an EN with less than a minute left in the 3rd only to see Poulin score a goal and win it in OT
USA hits the post on an EN with less than a minute left in the 3rd only to see Poulin score a goal and win it in OT
HabsQC
Registered User
Not the first time I've seen a US national team blow a late lead in sports, and it's always painful.
At least in 2010, we were the ones who tied it late to force overtime on the men's side, but we ended up coming up short anyway. Sidney Crosby's golden goal still haunts me.
Not hockey but Watford vs Leicester in 2013 when Knockaert blew a penalty and they ran it back to score in the final second.
New Jersey Devil
Registered User
I think it was game 1or 2 of Chicago’s Boston where a player on Boston (Daugevins??) missed auch a blatant wide open net in OT because he’s not good at hockey
Chicago won that game soon after
Edit found it: was 3OT to boot
Last year Sissons's miss vs the nucks. It was not quite a clear miss since Skinny Pete did some stickwork on him just when he was about to shoot.
lmao.
I don't know why he went to the backhand to begin with. The best play would have been a redirection or a quick shot from in-close.
The biggest what if one was what if Iginla missing the empty net late in game 7 in 2004 vs Vancouver resulted in an OT loss. Calgary ended up within a single shot of winning the cup after all of that.
DrDangles
Registered User
- Mar 1, 2013
- 3,756
- 1,921
I honestly think Edmundson playing frantic on your heels defense and clearing the puck down towards the empty net in game 5 cost LA that game+series. Had all the time in the world to play the puck and start a rush up the ice, instead they get hemmed in their zone due to an icing allowing Edmonton to tie and then win the game in OT.
There were a lot things he could have done, falling down certainly wasn’t the right choice
- Dec 17, 2018
- 12,403
- 21,740
He was like .1 seconds behind on everything- shoulda just tipped/shot it short side, shoulda stuck his leg out to block Oduya’s stick once he made the bad decision, then he falls on light contact a bit too late and blatantly.
It’s like you found the play that encapsulates why Dogshitovans is no longer in the league.
Before Eberles goal with 5.4 secs, the russian dude shot it (from his zone) but was laughing at his miss. 30secs later, history. golden history.
