OT: Flyers goalie Steve Mason lets in worst center ice goal ever

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Can't embed because I'm tech illiterate. It's every goalie's worst nightmare and I feel terrible for the guy. He made a great split save and possibly strained his groin prior to this shot, but still no excuse. http://youtu.be/c9SQBy_EFZ4
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Chalky White

April 17th, 2016 at 10:44 AM ^

That was at least a deflection. Osgood gave up some good ones. He had guys standing in the center of the ice shooting right at him and he still couldn't stop it.

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lbpeley

April 17th, 2016 at 12:36 PM ^

Jon Casey and it was from the blue line. Right on. Another weird one I remember was Fedorov against the Ducks. I think he was just dumping it in and it bounced weird off the boards and the goalie was looking for it to come around but it bounced right back up behind him and he kicked it in off his skate. That wasn't a sudden death one but it was pretty crazy.

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goblue12820

April 17th, 2016 at 2:56 PM ^

The fedorov one was against the coyotes in Phoenix. It was game 6 of the first round in 1998. I was at that game, sitting right behind the net where jimmy Waite kicked it in.

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xtramelanin

April 17th, 2016 at 8:49 PM ^

and they announcers were right to be ga-ga over those two.  the rest of the team was 'meh', but those two were wonderful hockey players, selanne in particular.  of course i pulled for the wings when they came for the ducks' first ever home game in '94, but it was a fun time to be a hockey fan in socal. 

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Avant's Hands

April 17th, 2016 at 1:14 PM ^

Right. I also wouldn't compare that Yzerman shot to this one at all. Yes, it was from the blue line and probably should have been stopped, but it was also a howitzer that went top shelf if memory serves. That was a good shot that was just from distance. Defensemen score from the blue line almost every day.

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stephenrjking

April 17th, 2016 at 3:34 PM ^

That whole series was amazing. Lidstrom's goal was crucial (I think it was actually the go-ahead but I'll have to check) but Steve Yzerman carried the rest of the team on his back on one good leg for basically the entire series. I watched games 3 and 4 alone on the CBC late at night, living and dying with every shot. 2002 is my favorite playoff run ever. But what a ride.

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Chuck Norris

April 17th, 2016 at 10:46 AM ^

Y'know, I hate when people say  "I coud've stopped that puck/ball/etc." or "I could've made that shot/pass/etc.", because they don't understand the massive difficulties that come with being a professional athlete, and the superb technical knowledge needed to play those positions. Everyone has mental slip ups, that's just life.

 

That being said... I could've stopped that.

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Clarence Beeks

April 17th, 2016 at 4:57 PM ^

Having played this position at a decently high level, this is spot on. Shots that are long, or slow, or worse, long and slow, are the absolute worst. Goaltending in hockey is completely a muscle memory/reaction position (the fundamentals and positioning are so that you're in the right place and body position so that your reactions are correct and you're in the right spot for them). Whenever you actually have to think about a shot that's when it's most likely to go wrong. That said, I don't think the average person would have made this save either. The thing not mentioned anywhere (including the coverage during the game) is that this would have been icing, but for the tip at center. It's certainly no excuse, because he should have been paying better attention, but I'm willing to bet that's where he lost his focus, rather than as it approached the net. All of that said, it's a complete non-issue if he had just done the one thing they drill into your head since you first start playing the position: keep your stick on the ice!



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carolina blue

April 17th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^

This is worse than any I've ever seen. It's coasting flat and slow on the ice the whole way. Pretty much every other one I've ever seen is bouncing or knuckling or some such action that it's a least reasonably difficult to gauge where it's going to go. This....no excuse at all. 100% his fault.



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Avant's Hands

April 17th, 2016 at 1:18 PM ^

Don't even need to watch the clip to know what Brodeur goal you linked. He was great at coming out to play those, but everything just happened to go wrong for him on this play. At least this one was mostly a bad bounce. And since we won the Cup anyway, I can look back at this and laugh. Mostly.

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Mi Sooner

April 17th, 2016 at 1:07 PM ^

Tony Esposito was famous for letting in goals from outside. Inside the dots he was a wall; outside it was a crapshoot. Of course, tony was blind as a bat and couldn't see well at a distance. If he had today's contacts, just think what could have done... Ps. He is in the hall of fame.

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stephenrjking

April 17th, 2016 at 3:38 PM ^

The headline seems hyperbolic on the face. I mean, I've seen Osgood goals and I've seen the Lidstrom Cloutier goal, of course. So I thought maybe this was exaggeration. But it wasn't a long shot or even a dump. It was a deflection on the far side of the red line that TRICKLED to goal. In cases like the Cloutier goal, a guy should stop it but at least if they're out of position (as Cloutier was) there's no time to correct and adjust. Here, Mason has time to correct if he is not oriented properly and he just... Doesn't. This is really bad.

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