>Anyone else remember super-fluke goals?
 
Unusual goals from the New Hampshire CHDA [College Hockey Dark Ages]:
 
  As was documented by Mike M. et al. at RPI, UNH was also the beneficiary
of a mid-game empty net goal vs. SLU in the early 1980s.  Once the SLU
goal-keeper left his cage for another attacker following a delayed penalty
call, all he could do was watch in horror as an SLU defenseman swung behind
the UNH net and fired a hard bank-shot off the near boards to his pointman,
who twisted around to intercept the odd carom, fell down, and then wanted
to disappear as the Snively full house cheered the puck down-ice into the
empty net.  To top it off, UNH later scored another (legitimate) short-handed
goal on the same PP.
 
  I remember two bizarre goals from the 1977 ECAC championships at Boston
Garden.  UNH outlasted Cornell 10-9 in an "epic" double-OT thriller in the
first semi-final, but not before UNH net-minder Dan Magnerelli scored for
the Big Red.  "Mags" made the initial glove save under-handed about knee-
high, but the hard slapper wind-milled his glove+puck behind him, his glove
opened up, and he essentially "threw" the puck into his own net ....  The
next night vs. BU in the championship game, a Terrier defenseman attempted
to clear the puck from his own zone by wrapping it high around the glass
behind the net.  You can probably guess the rest - the puck caromed off a
joint in the Plexiglas, hit the BU goalie on the back of his head, and
rolled into the cage.  The goal was eventually credited to Frankie Roy,
the closest UNH forechecker ....
 
  And, as proof that RPI isn't always on the wrong end of these odd goals,
there's the OT game-winner vs. UNH in the 1974 ECAC quarter-finals, when
UNH All-American goal-keeper Cap Raeder came out to stop a rolling puck
along the boards - only to see it suddenly change direction and skitter
crazily on edge in a lazy arc just beyond his outstretched stick to an
onrushing RPI forward who tapped it into the empty net for upset of #1
UNH :-(  Unlike BC last year (who was similarly upset in the HE quarter-
finals), there was no reprieve from the NC$$ - the 'Cats watched the NCAA
championships on TV that year .....
 
- Jim
  Go 'Cats