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).

 

[Mr Nogatco]

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.

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]

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

 

[Summer Rose]

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

I hate that you reminded me about this.

 

[HabsQC]

I hate that you reminded me about this.

So dramatic

 

[Summer Rose]

So dramatic

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.

 

[gary559]

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]

Cost the Flyers a Stanley Cup.

How so?

 

[nbwingsfan]

The Blues had a chance to ice their game tonight against Winnipeg with an empty net goal, but one of their players missed the net completely. I believe the score was still 3-1 when the miss happened. We'll see if they rebound with a win or not.

A memorable missed empty netter for me occurred in Game Four of the WSH/FLA first round series in 2022. With the Capitals leading, Garnet Hathaway missed an open net, and Reinhart of the Panthers tied the game and Florida won the game and took the series in six.

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