Instances Where An Empty Net Miss Cost A Team A Big Game Or Entire Series?

[kingsholygrail]

Don't care that it was a regular season game. This is still my favorite.

NOTE: Dallas need to bring back these goated jerseys. The new logo sucks.

Never gets old.

 

[Super Hans]

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.

 

[GlitchMarner]

HUGE significance for the Oilers
That 1 extra point we earned from tying the game allowed the Oilers to overtake the Blackhawks in the standings, and we got Sam Gagner instead of Patrick Kane.

Stefan gave us the decade of darkness instead of possible multiple Stanley Cups.

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.

 

[trojansoilers]

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]

Didn't the legendary Patrik Stefan flub have significance?

Surprisingly not since the Oilers still lost that game.

 

[tarheelhockey]

If we’re counting the Tikkanen miss…

 

[connellc]

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.

 

[Paper]

Cost the Flyers a Stanley Cup.

 

[Paper]

Didn't the legendary Patrik Stefan flub have significance?

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).