Was Ehlers Empty Netter The Longest Goal In NHL HIstory?

[LakeLivin]

Doesn't Ehlers empty netter have to be the longest goal in NHL history, at least on a regulation size rink?

I'm assuming distance is measured from the point the puck leaves a players stick. Not only did Ehlers shoot from the end boards, he rimmed it along the wall, which means that his release point was a couple feet further from the goal than if a player shot the puck from the end boards straight towards the goal.

 

[HockeyVirus]

For an empty net maybe. With a goalie this is the record holder

 

[Devil Dancer]

Seems like you couldn't possibly be farther away, unless maybe there was a freak goal in one of the old rinks before they were all exactly the same length?

 

[PuckFegula]

And yet somehow Trent Frederic is still further from scoring a goal. Really makes ya think.

 

[Steve Austin]

For an empty net maybe. With a goalie this is the record holder

Ofc it's a Maple Leaf letting that in

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

If you really want to split hairs here, technically the puck could be further from the net if it was closer to the corner right where the boards start to radius.

 

[LakeLivin]

If you really want to split hairs here, technically the puck could be further from the net if it was closer to the corner right where the boards start to radius.

True, I actually considered that. But to be a longer shot a player scoring from closer to the corner would have had to rim it along the boards like Ehlers did instead of shooting it directly at the net, which seems pretty unlikely.

 

[hangman005]

I want to see an Empty netter where they are behind the goal, fire it the length of the ice and rebound it in off the boards behind their own goal lol

 

[Jumptheshark]

There have been a few from behind the net

 

[HugginThePost]

Wonder if a D-man has ever shot the puck at the net, missed, bounced off the back boards, and then proceeded to go in the empty net at the other end of the ice?

Seems a bit questionable, but stranger things have happened.

Stranger yet, what if the defending player was trying to clear the zone from the opposite corner and rattled it around the boards with the D-man stopping it prior to the above scenario? Since the D-man that scored the own goal can't be credited for it, it would be the last player on the opposing team.

So, ~427' ENG???

 

[Lunatik]

I want to see an Empty netter where they are behind the goal, fire it the length of the ice and rebound it in off the boards behind their own goal lol

I want to see them shoot it off the boards behind their own net, go off the far crossbar... then bounce back and score on Logan Thompson

 

[hangman005]

I want to see them shoot it off the boards behind their own net, go off the far crossbar... then bounce back and score on Logan Thompson

You monster.

 

[Jumptheshark]

for those curious. A few years ago a similar thing happened and by the time the puck crossed the goal line? The player was already on the bench

 

[banks]

for those curious. A few years ago a similar thing happened and by the time the puck crossed the goal line? The player was already on the bench

There's also been times that an own-goal gets credited to the last person on the other team to have touched the puck, who by then was also already on the bench.

So, depending on how you define it, would "on the bench" be farther than the opposite end of the ice? They're not even on the ice!

 

[Jumptheshark]

There's also been times that an own-goal gets credited to the last person on the other team to have touched the puck, who by then was also already on the bench.

So, depending on how you define it, would "on the bench" be farther than the opposite end of the ice? They're not even on the ice!

A player was heading to the bench and tossed the puck towards the net and goalie goofed on it and it went in. Player was sitting on the bench when it went across the goal line