#MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTS IN NHL SERIES#
In any event, with the Oilers having won the first three games of the series - the score in Game 4 was 3-3 when the building went dark - NHL president John Ziegler aborted the game and said it would be replayed in Edmonton.
#MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTS IN NHL GENERATOR#
Why? Maybe the hamsters operating the generator got tired of running around their wheels. The Boston Garden blackout: May 24, 1988ĭuring the second period of Game 4 of the 1988 final between Edmonton and the Bruins, the power failed in decrepit Boston Garden. The problem: When the most winning goaltender in the history of the NHL raised his trapper to show the Wings and the world his swell save, the puck tumbled out and trickled into his own net.ħ. Then, as was his wont, Roy added a grace note, brandishing his glove like it was Lady Liberty's torch. In Game 6 of the 2002 semifinals between Roy's Colorado Avalanche and the archrival Detroit Red Wings, Roy made a nifty glove save on Steve Yzerman early in the match. Give us your tired, your poor, your cheapest of cheap goals. Patrick Roy's Statue of Liberty: May 29, 2002 The inability of labor and management to divvy up what was then a $2.1 billion business, an intransigence that cost jobs within the NHL and associated industries, was shameful, although it did open a door to the "new NHL" - shootouts, more penalties, a less constipated style of play.Ħ.
This lockout, a decade later, wiped out an entire season, marking the first time the Stanley Cup was not presented since 1919, when the worldwide Spanish influenza cut short the final between the Seattle Metropolitans and the Canadiens. The lockout of 1994-95 merely squashed all the momentum the NHL had gained from the Rangers' fabulous playoff run that ended their Stanley Cup drought of 54 years, a buzz-kill of the highest order. It's too bad that he did, and we feel sorry for him, but then he went goofy on us."ĥ. In December 2000, on the Canadian sports network TSN, Clarke says this: "The Neilson situation was when Roger got cancer. Recuperating more quickly than any man would have the right to, Neilson wants to resume as head coach, but Clarke declines.Ī sad and delicate situation, but not inherently embarrassing. The Reader's Digest abridged version of the story: Neilson is diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an indolent but deadly cancer, and he steps down for treatment, which includes a debilitating bone-marrow transplant. Philadelphia general manager Bob Clarke and "goofy" coach Roger Neilson: Dec. Whenever talk turns to hockey's basest instincts, the names McSorley and Bertuzzi always resurface.Ĥ. The incidents jerked hockey off the sports pages and into the national conversation - and not in a good way. The videos of the two incidents became so familiar after being shown in slow motion many times, you would have thought they had been shot by Abraham Zapruder. Wayne Lukas entry at the Kentucky Derby, they go so well together. Marty McSorley's and Todd Bertuzzi's on-ice goonery: 2000, 2004 Now, maybe the Spano mess wouldn't have happened if the NHL had spent more than $750 doing due diligence on Spano, who proved to be to scams what Pavarotti was to arias.ģ. This was a financial farce, an opera buffa reported splendidly by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper.
The $168 million deal collapsed like a tubercular soprano in the final act when Spano, a Dallas businessman and fraud artist who had snookered the league big time, actually had to pay up. The check was in the mail in the spring of 1997. John Spano buys the New York Islanders: January 1997 Smith lay on the ice afterward, crestfallen.Ģ. In Game 7 of the 1986 divisional finals against the persistent Flames, the Edmonton Oilers' rookie defenseman, trying to clear the zone from behind his goal line, banked a puck off goalie Grant Fuhr's left leg and into the net at 5:19 of the third period. The NHL's 10 most embarrassing moments since the 1967 expansion? You're kidding, right? The NHL doesn't usually do embarrassing, unless it's merely a quick stop to pick up a latte en route to full-blown humiliating.ġ.
0 kommentar(er)
