Saturday, November 28, 2009
Crazy Goal: Delayed Penalty = Horror Show for Canucks
Anyone else see this yet? I had my TV on mute and missed the 4th goal while doing something else. So I was looking online to see who scored and thought the boxscore was screwed up - anyone that frequently checks out Yahoo boxscores knows exactly what I'm talking about. I saw that the boxscore looked weird, Viktor Tikhonov of Pheonix was credited with an empty net goal in the 2nd period and also got a hooking penalty at the exact same time.
Then I caught a partial replay of it so I rewinded it via DVR to see a crazy goal being scored.
During a delayed penalty Luongo went to the bench for the extra skater. Viktor Tikhonov was about to get a penalty but he was forechecking and hacked at a pass to Shane O'Brien, it deflected all the way back into the empty net. The CBC commentator said he was the first NHL player to get a goal and a penalty on the same play. Crazy sequence of events! Check it out for yourself below...