Ron Hextall - Second Goal 4/11/89

[railroadlover]

There is one Capitals Fan amung us...

[Spunky41182]

coolest thing to happen on my 7th birthday by far :)

[thedonvespe]

My dad was at this game with his friend.

[iLoveMEsomeME81]

not a very good call of the goal...

[mam3300]

HEXTALL ROCKS!

[mam3300]

My player! go Hextall! To bad he coaches los angelous!

[twpjoe]

it was his 2nd one u dick, his first he just lanched it

[ClimbingThunder]

When was the last time a Flyers goalie did this?

[offthelinegt]

Hahaha, he almost hit his defencemen in the face too!

[ECWnWWF]

Ron Hextall was the first Goalie to score a goal on a shot attempt.

Billy Smith is the first Goaltender to score a goal, but it wasn't on a shot attempt. The Islanders were playing the Colorado Rockies (who are now the New Jersey Devils), the Rockies pulled their Goalie on a delayed penalty call, and an errant pass slide all the way down the ice and into the empty goal, Billy Smith was the last Islander to touch the Puck - therefore he got credit for the Goal.

[Joekaintion]

@ECWnWWF what every FLYERS FTW!

[cannywf1]

I put in "Flying Spaghetti Monster" and this came up....???

[tjackson76]

@cannywf1 weird?

[pindy911]

@cannywf1 why the hell did u search that up ?

[ToBaCa12]

@cannywf1 I did cause you said it and it actually did

[walt175]

@cannywf1 Why would you type in flying spaghetti monster? lol

[tjackson76]

@walt175 i looked it up on wikipedia, its some kind of god or something.

[EdTheBadass]

@tjackson76

the successor of Jesus

[IFxTe]

@tjackson76 LMAO!!

[ffryan]

@tjackson76 the flying spaghetti monster is an atheist counter to a theist argument. When a thest says God's existance cannot be disproven, the counter is the FSM cannot be disproven either.. Not quite sure how that search brought him here though, lol.

[girhen]

@ffryan I would assume someone thought the FSM used his noodly appendage to help this goal happen.

[colocolo1546]

@cannywf1 He acts in mysterious ways



[CatieCass]

@cannywf1 Lmao I just typed it in to see if you were right, and you were! Lol that is so funny!!!!!!

[flinchy17]

That's exactly what happened. The puck bounced off Smith, and I think an LA king passed to nobody and the puck glided down the rink into an empty goal.

[XXBueckDichXX]

Love Hextall!!! Him and Bernie Parent tied for my favorite goalies!

[DerangedRanger1]

he turned that into a bad line change by the caps.

[cyounger18]

LETS GO FLYERS

[niclashaglund]

was that shorthanded?

[freddyboombatz]

@niclashaglund

yes IIRC, it was.

[freddyboombatz]

@freddyboombatz

I counted 4 Flyers Skaters

[AdrianBurka]

@betweenhalifax Don't you feel silly right now? :-)

[betweenhalifax]

@AdrianBurka lol only 4 wins and the cup is our!!! LET'S GO FLYERS!!!

[betweenhalifax]

Flyers should sign him back so our season will not be screwd!

[Joekaintion]

@betweenhalifax um, dude.....u fail

[Deadfox7777]

that more goals that ive scored!

[jest544]

I like the way he would hacksaw people that crowded his grease!

[IRONSEAN7]

im a Bruins fan, and im almost glad that he scored his first against us,, thats just awsome,,, congrats to him

[MartyTurco093]

from behind he red line also!! amazing

[MarkOfTheRebel]

Oh shit, this was in the playoffs? Nice!

[kushie14]

Didn't Brodeur also score once before?

[insane250]

he did twice

[Hockeyevan9992]

yeah but the 2nd one wasn't a shot, it was an own-goal. He was credited with it because he was the last person on his team to touch the puck.

[merkstanggtr]

Doesn't make it any less of a goal. When Pavel Bure scored 59 goals in the 2000-2001 season, many of them were empty netters, but he still got credit. A goal is a goal.

[Hockeyevan9992]

I'm not talking about empty netters. I'm saying it was an own goal on the other team, he was the last person to touch the puck. Surely it is still a goal, but he didn't actually score it, so even though he gets credit, it doesn't make is any more his than it does the player on the other team.

[tjackson76]

Thats the way Billy Smith was credited with his goal. He was the first nhl goalie to score but not the first to shoot and score.

[therealsolstice]

i don't get it. how did Billy Smith get credit for a goal if he didn't score? did the buck bounce off him, and then a player from the other team (who'd suffered one too many crosschecks to the head) take the puck up ice and score on his own net by accident?

it's perplexing me. can you explain it?

[tjackson76]

I'm pretty sure he made a save, the other team got the rebound and went to pass it back to the point, but missed and the puck went down the ice and into the net. since billy smith was the last islander to touch the puck he was credited with the goal.... I don't know but there might be video here of it...

[Jawnny666]

that's pretty much the size of it, he made a save off his chest then Rob Ramage tried to drop it back and nobody was there and it just went all the way down into the net

[NwJrsyDevs]

look up nhl goalies who have scored a goal i think it has all of them

[Deadfox7777]

what the hell are you talking about?

[therealsolstice]

@Deadfox7777

billy smith is known as the first NHL goalie to be credited with a goal, but hextal is the first goalie to "score a goal". that's what i'm talkin about... and i can't figure out how a goalie can be the last person on a team to touch the puck before it goes into the other net, unless he shot it, or the other team is full of retards.

[x30xSabresFan]

@therealsolstice what? no if say miller passes the puck to

the lets say islanders and they go put it into there own net

the last sabre who touched the puck is creidted and might

if so be the goalie

[dolphinsneu]

@therealsolstice it was a delayed penalty, so the other goalie went to the bench.  Smith made a save and the puck went behind the net. The other team tried to pass it out front, but the pass went all the way down the ice and into the goal. Smith, being the last islander to touch puck, got credit for the goal.

[x30xSabresFan]

@Hockeyevan9992 ok i think i know

the other player on the other team scored a goal

but billy smith got criedt for it because one team can't get criedt

for putting the puck in there own net

[JasonVoorhees83]

yeah I can't agree with you there either, sorry. when you're the last person to touch the puck and the other team gets an own goal, you did'nt acctually score. but I guess for statistic reasons there has to be a "goalscorer"

[sonicamylovers11]

@Hockeyevan9992 what Hextall definatlly touched it last and he shot it and nobody else touched it o_o..

[Hockeyevan9992]

@sonicamylovers11

I was talking about Brodeur's second goal, not Hextall.

[sonicamylovers11]

@Hockeyevan9992 oh sorry

[TyTyGuitar]

@Hockeyevan9992 You are clearly fucking impaired if you cannot see that he DID score...BY HIMSELF! 

[Hockeyevan9992]

@TyTyGuitar

If you read the other comment, you'd know that I was talking about BRODEUR'S goal. Dumbass.

[CountSlippers]

@Hockeyevan9992 You high?

[Hockeyevan9992]

@CountSlippers

Nah bro. I was talking about Brodeur's second goal. You high?

[roenic2]

hextall was the first though.

[SIXpointOHHHS]

yes theres a few goalies who have

[AEMoreira81]

But how many goalies have actually shot the puck into the net?

[razorslice17]

a few. Martin Brodeur (Devils) also has 1 goals

[BlaineHockeyPlayer]

ha kool