The Montreal Canadiens misplaced, 4-3, to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday night time, however they a minimum of get the honour of scoring what may be the weirdest objective of the NHL season to this point.
With the Canadiens already main 1-0 halfway by way of the second interval, there was an enormous confusion when the Lightning, in addition to the world operations workers, thought play had been stopped.
The DJ began enjoying music, the Lightning stopped enjoying and went off for a line change, and goalie Jonas Johansson went for a skate round his personal finish of the rink and left his web deserted.
The one downside is that the whistle by no means blew. It was nonetheless a reside play. Canadiens defenseman Johnathan Kovacevic was the one person who appeared to appreciate this and shot the puck the size of the ice into the deserted web for one of many best — and weirdest — targets of his profession.
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