Morning Wrap: Calgary Flames With Worst Own Goal Ever This Week

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It's never good to put the puck in your own net, but in hockey and a few other sports it happens from time to time.

But you are not likely to see an "Own Goal" like this one.

Saturday night, the Calgary Flames put one in between the pipes when goalie Jonas Hiller left the net unattended after a delayed penalty call.

Which in hockey happens quite frequently. When you know a penalty is coming, you try to run an extra attacker out there until the whistle blows.

Here's the problem: A Flames defender got the puck and launched it back towards the blue line.

Nobody was there.

The puck kept sliding down the ice and yup, it goes in the net. Vancouver Canucks defender Yannick Weber, the last Canuck to touch the puck gets credit for the goal and all Flames coach Bob Hartley can do is shake his head.

Morning Wrap: Coyotes Center Scores Game Winner For Avalanche

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Talk about a crappy way to lose a hockey game. This one may take the cake.

The Colorado Avalanche got a 4-3 overtime win Tuesday night vs. The Arizona Coyotes. The reason they got the win--

Coyotes center Martin Hanzal deflected a pass by Colorado's Daniel Briere into the net, past Coyotes Goalie Mike Smith.

Game over.

Briere gets credit for the goal even though he wasn't trying to score and Hanzal holds his head in shame.

Your highlights from NHL.com:

How Not To Play The Alleged Mafia-Backed Team In The Next Round Of Your Playoffs

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Two Indonesian football clubs were in a playoff, but they both knew that the winner was going to face a team allegedly backed by the local mafia.

What to do in this situation...???

How about try and score as many questionable goals on yourself as possible- on both sides...

Here's your proof... in Indonesian...


The low-down in the end:

PSS Sleman and PSIS Semarang got DQ'ed from the first division play-offs for scoring five own goals- in the last five minutes of regulation.

OSG Prem: Liverpool Escapes QPR With A Win

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And the HQ means "escapes..."

In a game that was, mainly, Liverpool coasting against an inferior side in Queen's Park Rangers the last few minutes were stuff that was edge-of-the-seat madness really...

Two own goals...??? Really...??? Really...


QPR manager Harry Redknapp exposed a big flaw of his team post-match


Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers knows he's lucky...


The end result means that Liverpool move up to 5th with QPR dead last in the table. Burnley and QPR are tied at 4 points but the Clarets have an advantage from goal differential of 3.

OSG Prem: Sunderland's Vergini Scores Gorgeous Fail

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It has been a horrible day on the pitch for Sunderland- down 3-0 at the break against Southampton

This play seems to personify the whole day...

Defender Santiago Vergini scores a beautiful goal, but on his own keeper as he was trying to clear...


See...???

Gorgeous, but in the wrong direction...

How's This For An Own Goal...???

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Cristiano Ronaldo is on the verge of a three-game La Liga suspension for dissent and excessive hand waving the other day...

So, the folks over at Barca tried to get some things moving forward in their semi-final with Real Sociedad

And its goals like this that give you the margin you need to win and advance to the anticipated final everyone on the planet is looking for in the first place...

HILARIOUS own goal | Barcelona vs Real Sociedad... by LaLigaAction

Pretty good facial...

Montreal-Ottawa Was One Of The Year's Best... And That's Just In The Stands...

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It was, probably, one of the best games of the year to date in the National Hockey League- and it, pretty much, featured everything. Long runs, lead changes, own goals, nationalism, and the fans getting involved...

For those not familiar with the geography of the situation, the nation's capital of Canada is on the riverside of the border of Ontario and Quebec province. And that river separates English-speaking majority from Quebec and their French-speaking nationalists on the other bank.

And the HQ would love to know how Habs fans bought seats in the lower bowl at Ottawa last night...

But, here's what happened on the ice...
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And it even carried over into the stands in the battle of French and English-speaking Canada...


Here's the Sportsnet version...

Puck Into Pants= Game-Winning Own Goal

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Okay...

Goal or not a goal...


Apparently, in the eyes of the league...
It's a goal... and it gave Buffalo a win over Phoenix...

At 3:47 of overtime in the Coyotes/Sabres game, video review supported the referee's call on the ice that Mark Pysyk's shot deflected into the air and landed in goaltender Mike Smith's equipment and, while attempting to make the save, Smith's momentum propelled him and the puck completely across the goal line. Good goal Buffalo.

And the goalie for the Coyotes, Mike Smith, wasn't happy...

Joe Yerdon from Pro Hockey Talk via his own Twitter:

"It's an honest game and if you don't play how you're supposed to play... you get it jammed right up your butt."

And from John Vogl of the Buffalo News via his Twitter:

"I guess if they don’t see the puck they’re supposed to blow the whistle, but that’s not what happened."

But Rule 85.3 says: "Should a scramble take place or a player accidentally fall on the puck and the puck be out of sight of the Referee… he shall immediately blow his whistle and stop the play."

And it didn't happen in this case...

The HQ doesn't think this is the last we'll hear of this, either...

Your Basic, Every Day Own Goal... In The NHL...

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This is, for all intents and purposes, what soccer calls an "own goal..."

In a wild game that finished 6-5 in OT, this was what got them this much closer to overtime in the first place...

Roberto Luongo Gave Up An Own Goal, Except When He Didn't...

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Let's face it...

The HQ has no idea what is up with Roberto Luongo, but it seems like he's gone all Schleprock on us...

The dark cloud seems to follow- regardless of how much effort he seems to make to the contrary...

Your new round of evidence is below...
Lars Eller, technically, gets credit for a short-handed, game-winning goal... But, then, we have standard denial... “I didn’t see it. I didn’t see it,” Luongo said postgame. “They didn’t show it on the Jumbotron, I didn’t see it. You guys tell me what happened.” The follow-up question was if he’d ever given up a more bizarre game winner, and Luongo said: “I didn’t give that up, so I can’t tell you.”
And it's weird responses like that that give Canucks fans fits with their starting goaltender... and make them wonder why he's still there...

This Is NOT How To Handle A Back Pass

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Viktoria Plzen had a chance to get some points on the road in Champions League play this afternoon against CSKA Moscow. The home team couldn't play at home because their stadium was a mess, so they had to move it to St Petersburg.

Didn't seem to matter, but this own goal did in a 3-2 final...

Your Italian Soccer Goal of the Week

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Haha!

This is pretty funny video. Mostly because it's something you are not likely to see much...if ever.

Check out what happens to the Delta Porto Tolle goalie when he tries to clear the ball from his goal area.

Yes, we'll give you a hint, it's windy outside.

The game was part of an Italian Serie D league game. No, we don't know the eventual winner, just watch the goal kick...in all it's glory.