Hello hockey fans,
I work for sport channel in Czech rep. and for our weekly show I´m trying to compile a file on playoffs. Over the last 2 seasons do you remember any player to be injured in playoffs only to come back and score a big goal ?
Players who scored a clutch goal either in the same game or the same series or even the same playoff year they were injured.
Like: Paul Kariya in Game 6 Stanley Cup finals of 2003 when he was hammered by Stevens yet he came back and in the same period he scored a assuring goal for Ducks.
Or Scott Stevens himself same year, when he was hit by a puck to head in series against Lightning, but he returned in next game a scored a PP goal.
Or Pierre Turgeon in Game 5 in 2001 of Blues-Sharks series. He was hit to mouth by deflected puck, lost couple of teeths but in the same game he assisted on game tying goal + game winner in OT.
Or Joe Nieuwendyk in the same year, who injured knee in Game 2 of Stars- Oilers series but he came back in Game 6 and scored series clincher with 3 minutes remaining.
Mostly I´m trying locate these stuff in 2005-07 span as we have a huge collections of games from these seasons, but if you remember any other stuff from years 2002, 2003 or 2004 it will be helpful too though we have only limited archive of these playoff, mostly final series.
Thank you everybody for help...Jiri Slegr will come in as a special guest to discuss wars in playoffs.
I work for sport channel in Czech rep. and for our weekly show I´m trying to compile a file on playoffs. Over the last 2 seasons do you remember any player to be injured in playoffs only to come back and score a big goal ?
Players who scored a clutch goal either in the same game or the same series or even the same playoff year they were injured.
Like: Paul Kariya in Game 6 Stanley Cup finals of 2003 when he was hammered by Stevens yet he came back and in the same period he scored a assuring goal for Ducks.
Or Scott Stevens himself same year, when he was hit by a puck to head in series against Lightning, but he returned in next game a scored a PP goal.
Or Pierre Turgeon in Game 5 in 2001 of Blues-Sharks series. He was hit to mouth by deflected puck, lost couple of teeths but in the same game he assisted on game tying goal + game winner in OT.
Or Joe Nieuwendyk in the same year, who injured knee in Game 2 of Stars- Oilers series but he came back in Game 6 and scored series clincher with 3 minutes remaining.
Mostly I´m trying locate these stuff in 2005-07 span as we have a huge collections of games from these seasons, but if you remember any other stuff from years 2002, 2003 or 2004 it will be helpful too though we have only limited archive of these playoff, mostly final series.
Thank you everybody for help...Jiri Slegr will come in as a special guest to discuss wars in playoffs.