The Montreal Canadiens misplaced, 4-3, to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday evening, however they no less than get the honour of scoring what is likely to be the weirdest purpose of the NHL season thus far.
With the Canadiens already main 1-0 halfway by means of the second interval, there was an enormous confusion when the Lightning, in addition to the world operations employees, thought play had been stopped.
The DJ began taking part in music, the Lightning stopped taking part in 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 drawback is that the whistle by no means blew. It was nonetheless a stay 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 — objectives of his profession.
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