The worst goaltending performance ever?

[19Yzerman19]

Don't know how to embed videos but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEuUXLFbV9A

 

[19Yzerman19]

one more try

 

[Fire Sweeney]

Martin Brodeur Vancouver 2010.

 

[svetovy poharu]

In the modern post World War II era, some of the worst international
goaltending performances from the "A" pool grouping include:

As noted earlier, Canada defeated Denmark 47-0 in the 1949 world
championships at Stockholm. It was Denmark's international hockey
debut and Danish goalie Flemming Jensen surrendered 13 goals in the
1st period, 16 in the 2nd and 18 in the 3rd period. The Canadian
team, represented by the Sudbury Wolves, scored a goal on an average
of every 77 seconds.

Two days later, Austria beat Denmark 25-1, with Jensen giving up
all 25 goals. As a result of these defeats, Denmark did not return
to play international hockey again until 1962.

At the 1950 world championships in London, Canada defeated Belgium 33-0
with Belgian goalie Charel Heylen in net for all 33 goals against, and
he faced a total of 114 shots in the game. His playing was actually
spectacular and the final score would have been much worse if not for
his stellar performance.

At the 1948 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, the U.S. beat Italy 31-1,
scoring 31 times on Italian goalie Gianantonio Zopegni.

These are just a few examples.

 

[Big Phil]

If you want to look at some normal run of the mill regular season NHL games then there are lots. Patrick Roy in 1995 as his last game as a Hab. Dave Reece the poor goalie behind Sittler's 10 point night, etc.

But if you want to pick some important games/series then there are some notable ones:

Nabokov Quarterfinals 2010 Olympics - Honestly, the better team won, but there are times when a goalie just literally puts his team out of the game before it even starts and this pretty much happened with him and it hurts that he has never been known to be a shut down goalie in the playoffs with San Jose to start with. A 7-3 final, and to be honest Canada took their foot off the pedal after 6-1.

Mike Liut 1981 Canada Cup - I know, the whole team played lousy. But they lost 8-1! Liut wasn't totally at fault but failed to make the big save when the team needed it too. It was a two-way street.

Cheevers Game 3 1979 Challenge Cup - Team NHL lost 6-0 to the Russians and this was a case where Cheevers allowed some bad goals, unlike Liut.

Fleury 2012 playoffs - The worst I have seen in recent memory. Did Claude Giroux score on him everytime he shot from any angle at any time of the game? It seemed like it.

Luongo 2009, 2010 vs. Chicago - He blew the joint out. I was convinced he just simply was cursed with the colour red. You could blame him for those losses and it might be an understatement.

Vernon 1990 playoffs - Was shaky the whole time and is a big reason that Flames team only won once (although he was a big part of when they won). He was in net for part of that 12-4 rout.

Mark Visentin 2011 WJC Gold Medal game - There are countless things wrong with this scenario. I hope coach Dave Cameron never comes within a 100 mile radius of a Canadian team bench again and how he cut Nugent Hopkins is a mystery as well as why he left Visentin in net and didn't call a time out. But when you enter the third period of a gold medal game up 3-0 and lose 5-3 thanks to some weak goaltending, well, let's just say this still irks me.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Patrik Lalime in the 2004 ECQF Game 7 vs the Leafs. Let in 2 absolute backbreakers that a shooter tutor would have stopped from Joe Niewendyk and basically lost a really good Ottawa team the game in the first period by himself.

 

[jcs0218]

Patrik Lalime in the 2004 ECQF Game 7 vs the Leafs. Let in 2 absolute backbreakers that a shooter tutor would have stopped from Joe Niewendyk and basically lost a really good Ottawa team the game in the first period by himself.

Those goals were completely pathetic. I could have stopped them.

Lalime never played another game for Ottawa after this.

 

[CaptBrannigan]

David Littman played 45 minutes for the Lightning, allowing 7 goals with a .667 SP.
He played two other NHL games, with the Sabres, allowing 7 goals in 96 minutes.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

David Littman played 45 minutes for the Lightning, allowing 7 goals with a .667 SP.
He played two other NHL games, with the Sabres, allowing 7 goals in 96 minutes.

Legend.

And here I couldn’t even get in one game despite competing with John Blue

EDIT: Daniel Berthiaume’s fantastic “2 goals in one minute” game, ending with a SV% of .000 and GAA of 120.00

 

[The Panther]

The worst-ever, modern era, is probably a one-off meaningless game by John Garrett or Corrado Micalef or Ron Low, or one of those early-80s WHA-holdover goalies whom the clock struck midnight on at some point around 1984 or so.

In playoff games, I think the two worst I've seen -- both by otherwise pretty good goalies -- were both in 1990:

1) Kelly Hrudey: round two vs. Edmonton (esp. games 1 and 2) -- Overall, Hrudey put up a .786 vs. Ranford's .927. Hrudey managed a .696 in game one and a .792 in game two, allowing 13 goals in the process. Some of those goals were (f)ugly....

2) Andy Moog: Finals, game two, vs. Edmonton -- After a narrow loss in the longest game in Finals' history in game one, the 1st-overall Bruins were set to get revenge in game two on home ice. And they did, massively out-playing and out-shooting Edmonton through two periods.
1st period, Boston outshoots Edmonton 10-2.
Score? 2 - 1 for Edmonton.

2nd period, Boston outshoots Edmonton 12-9.
Score? 6 - 2 for Edmonton.

In 24:21 of playing time in a Finals game, on home ice, Moog managed... 1 save. He sat down with a .250.

 

[Prsut18]

Not a big deal, meaningful game or anything, but still interesting numbers..

Czech goalie Marek Pinc at 2007 World Championships -- 23 seconds played, 1 save, 1 goal , Loss- .500SV% , 156,52 GAA

 

[Albatros]

Ron Hextall once had 17 saves and 9 goals against in 30 minutes of hockey. To make matters worse that was a playoff game against the Penguins. His replacement Ken Wregget kept a clean sheet for his half, both goalies also got misconduct penalties.

 

[Buffalowing1988]

Ron Hextall once had 17 saves and 9 goals against in 30 minutes of hockey. To make matters worse that was a playoff game against the Penguins. His replacement Ken Wregget kept a clean sheet for his half, both goalies also got misconduct penalties.

Hextall was prone to some really bad games here and there. If he lost his cool, that was it. A tougher coach would have taken him out. I'm sure he was the opposite of Roy in terms of wanting to play the game out. Not necessarily a good thing, but very much a Hextall thing.

 

[alko]

The highest score in an international ice hockey match was when Slovakia beat Bulgaria 82-0 in a Pre-Olympic women's qualification game at Liepaja, Latvia, on 6 September 2008. The score for each third was as follows, 31-0, 24-0 and 27-0.
Janka Culicova was the topscorer in the match with 10 goals.

I dont know, who exactly was in Bulgarias net (maybe it was empty), but the statistics will be truly awful.

 

[Doctor No]

A couple of candidates that tie back to players/situations mentioned in the thread but not specifically mentioned:

On February 2, 1982, John Garrett and the Quebec Nordiques defeated Colorado by an 8-7. Garrett stopped 9 of 16 shots (56.3% save percentage) to acquire the win.

On December 17, 2014, Andrew Hammond opened the AHL Binghamton Senators' game against Lehigh Valley by allowing goals on the first three Phantoms shots (at 0:15, 0:27, and 0:36 of the first period). Hammond acquired a 0.0% save percentage and 300.00 GAA for the game before being replaced by Scott Greenham (who actually earned the loss, as the Senators clawed back in a 5-3 loss).

Neither likely the "worst goaltending performance ever", but they're both pretty interesting and now they're in your head.

 

[Stephen]

What about Andrew Raycroft’s Game 82 performance in 2005-06 vs Montreal? Team spots him separate 1-0 and 3-1 leads in a must win game to make the playoffs and he repays his teammates by coughing up both leads and leaving them in a 4-3 deficit before being pulled for J-S Aubin who would backstop them to a 6-5 OT triumph.

In the end it was all for nothing but signalled the beginning of the end for Raycroft in Toronto as well as the start of the Leafs near decade long playoff drought.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

February 11, 2019... the Canucks, overwhelmed by goalie injuries, had to call up Mike DiPietro from the OHL and start him against the Sam Jose Sharks.
DiPietro let in 7 goals on 24 shots for a .708 save percentage.
He was then returned to his Jr. team.

 

[DeysArena]

The highest score in an international ice hockey match was when Slovakia beat Bulgaria 82-0 in a Pre-Olympic women's qualification game at Liepaja, Latvia, on 6 September 2008. The score for each third was as follows, 31-0, 24-0 and 27-0.
Janka Culicova was the topscorer in the match with 10 goals.

I dont know, who exactly was in Bulgarias net (maybe it was empty), but the statistics will be truly awful.

The Slovaks weren't trying to run up the score. The Bulgarian team was so inept that they scored if they made the slightest effort.

 

[jimmysheva]

Tommy Salo vs Belarus in 2002 Olympics

 

[Albatros]

Tommy Salo vs Belarus in 2002 Olympics

Allowed a soft goal, worst performance ever.

 

[tornadowarning33]

Tyler Bunz's lone NHL appearance toward the end of 2014-15 for Edmonton. He had been awful as a pro up to that point (.893 sv% in 67 career ECHL appearances, just a shade over .800 in 8 AHL appearances). By April of that season, Edmonton was scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep two goalies on the roster. When Richard Bachman left for personal reasons, the Oilers were basically left to choose between Bunz and Laurent Brossoit from Oklahoma City. The Barons were in position to make the Calder Cup playoffs, in part because of Brossoit's play. Bunz, meanwhile, hadn't started a game since January (for ECHL's Wichita Thunder). Bunz got the call and this was generally understood to be more of an indictment against him in that Oiler management didn't trust him to win meaningful games for OKC down the stretch. No matter, though. All Tyler had to do was sit on the bench backing up Ben Scrivens. Easy enough.

The Oilers went into LA and Scrivens gave up five goals through two periods, so Todd Nelson sends Bunz out for the third to make his NHL debut. You can probably guess where this is going:


Two goals here 22 seconds apart. You can definitely forgive the first one for the screen job, but the second is pure cringe. I can't find any other video from this period, but it was pretty tough to watch. He ended up allowing one more for a final stat line of three goals on 12 shots in 20 minutes. IIRC, this was his last ever pro game. Certainly not the absolute worst performance in this thread, but the circumstances around it are definitely bizarre.

 

[shadow1]

In 1989, Ron Hextall (Philadelphia) gave up 9 goals on 26 shots in a playoff loss to Pittsburgh.

He only played 30:48, and was pulled twice in the game. Hextall was initially pulled at the end of the 1st period (with the Flyers down 6-1), but was put back in net in the 2nd period and was again pulled when the Penguins made it 9-3 (Pittsburgh won 10-7).

Ken Wregget, who replaced Hextall twice, stopped all 8 shots he faced in the game (28:45 TOI).

(HM's: In 1990, Scott Gordon (Quebec) gave up 12 goals on 31 shots in a loss to Washington. In 1992, Jeff Hackett (San Jose) gave up 10 goals on 40 shots in a loss to Minnesota.)

 

[K Fleur]

I like the post from 2012 about how historically terrible MAF was in 2012

Only for him to top himself against the Islanders in 2013.

 

[CaptBrannigan]

Tyler Bunz's lone NHL appearance toward the end of 2014-15 for Edmonton. He had been awful as a pro up to that point (.893 sv% in 67 career ECHL appearances, just a shade over .800 in 8 AHL appearances). By April of that season, Edmonton was scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep two goalies on the roster. When Richard Bachman left for personal reasons, the Oilers were basically left to choose between Bunz and Laurent Brossoit from Oklahoma City. The Barons were in position to make the Calder Cup playoffs, in part because of Brossoit's play. Bunz, meanwhile, hadn't started a game since January (for ECHL's Wichita Thunder). Bunz got the call and this was generally understood to be more of an indictment against him in that Oiler management didn't trust him to win meaningful games for OKC down the stretch. No matter, though. All Tyler had to do was sit on the bench backing up Ben Scrivens. Easy enough.

The Oilers went into LA and Scrivens gave up five goals through two periods, so Todd Nelson sends Bunz out for the third to make his NHL debut. You can probably guess where this is going:


Two goals here 22 seconds apart. You can definitely forgive the first one for the screen job, but the second is pure cringe. I can't find any other video from this period, but it was pretty tough to watch. He ended up allowing one more for a final stat line of three goals on 12 shots in 20 minutes. IIRC, this was his last ever pro game. Certainly not the absolute worst performance in this thread, but the circumstances around it are definitely bizarre.

I can’t imagine there are too many players whose first NHL game was also their last professional game! Short of a terrible injury that’s a pretty unique thing to have happen.

 

[kaiser matias]

The Slovaks weren't trying to run up the score. The Bulgarian team was so inept that they scored if they made the slightest effort.

I wouldn't call it inept. That was literally Bulgaria's fourth ever game played, and they were unranked playing in a tournament with teams ranked 13, 15, 17, and 30th overall (Slovakia was actually only 17th overall). Their other games were 41-0, 30-1, and 39-0. I also recall many of the players were relatively new to the sport, and only entered the tournament for the experience and chance to play some meaningful games. They knew they couldn't compete, but why not try and see what happens.