If you thought you’d never see this get called… you’re not alone. Chris Pronger takes a penalty for getting his hand up in Mikka Kiprusoff’s face in overtime, thus canceling out Mike Richards’ apparent game winning goal.
Calgary would win the game by a final of 3-2, in a shootout.
Wha?! Amazing. I like two things about this: that it happened again; that it got called. I hope this becomes a trend and the attempts to distract get more and more schoolyard.
Making ‘doy’ faces at the goalie, bunny ears, purple nurples…
this can only get better, like Avery whipping out a cell phone in front of a goalie and calling the goalies girlfriend/wife/favourite stripper
Steve, DLucas – I’m loving this. How about Avery keeps a Sharpie is his skate, signs his stick, offers it to Brodeur… on the ice.
Whipping balls of hockey tape at the goalie from the bench?
How ’bout Avery wearin’ a goal mask on the power play and mimicking all the goalie’s moves? …(like the Kipper superfan in Calgary who does it from the stands)
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