One aspect of hockey we rarely get to see is a goalie goal. When it happens, it’s one of those moments everyone stops what they’re doing to watch. Take Minnesota Wild netminder Filip Gustavsson’s goal last week, which inspired the list.
When he scored, I was enjoying a concert, but the second I saw the notification that it happened, I stopped watching for a minute to tell my friend about it and show them the goal. It’s that much of an event. It’s something that happens so infrequently because of how much needs to go right for it to occur.
The goalie needs to be in the right moment at the right time, with little enough pressure that they can take the shot. And then the goalie themselves needs to actually be confident in their shooting ability, so it’s something that doesn’t happen very often. We’ve only seen 18 goalie goals in NHL history, and today, I’m ranking all of them from worst to best.
Let’s begin. 18. Chris Mason – April 15, 2006 The thing with goalie goals is that there are several on which they were just simply credited with the goal after making a save and being the last person to touch the puck before the other team scored on their own net.
So how do we rank a goal that the player didn’t even take the shot for? By ranking it based on the quality of the save they made that led to getting credit with the goal. Among the goalies to be credited with a goal from a save, Mason’s is probably the weakest. Geoff Sanderson fired the puck on net wit.
