The Future of Goalie Goals
- Filip Gustavsson's empty-net goal made him the 15th goalie scorer in NHL history and only the 10th to score by shooting the puck.
- Three consecutive NHL seasons have now featured a goalie shooting the puck into an empty net, an unprecedented streak in league history.
- Gustavsson's goal came earlier on the calendar than any previous goalie empty-net goal, surpassing Mike Smith's Oct. 19, 2013 marker.
- Alex Nedeljkovic, who has scored three professional goals, believes most modern NHL goalies are physically capable of scoring given open ice.
- The surge raises the possibility that two goalies could score in the same NHL season, which has never happened.
Goal scoring is up in the NHL but when it comes to goalies, goal scoring in the NHL is at a historic pace after Minnesota Wild No.1 Filip Gustavsson became the latest to launch a puck into an empty net at the other end last week.
Gustavsson became the 15th goalie score in the NHL, but just the 10th to do so by shooting the puck into the empty net (the others were simply the last to touch an own goal). It also marked the third straight season that a goalie has shot a puck into an empty net, something that has never happened before in the League.
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