The Future of Goalie Goals
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.
InGoal now maintains a running list of every goalie goal in NHL history, plus every one we can verify at every other level of hockey, sorted by league and with video where it exists.
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Gustavsson's goal came four days ahead of the previous record for earliest on the calendar — and the name and exact date of that benchmark, and what it means for the rest of this season, follows below.
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