Bottle Rockets

PuckThumper11

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I've never heard of this until tonight. As I'm sure many of you know, this refers to when a goal breaks the goalie's water bottle. Is this a really old term? I mean, how can you break a plstic bottle? Haha. Anyone have any examples? I've never seen this. Thanks, hockey fans!
 

Akrapovince

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I think in the NHL there’s a strap to hold the water bottle down, but when I was playing minor hockey the sickest goals were when you roofed the puck and knocked the water bottle off haha.

I don’t think our shots were ever hard enough to make the bottle explode however.
 

CookiesAndMilk

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I think in the NHL there’s a strap to hold the water bottle down, but when I was playing minor hockey the sickest goals were when you roofed the puck and knocked the water bottle off haha.

I don’t think our shots were ever hard enough to make the bottle explode however.
I remember well :laugh: we did the same thing. You could shot off the cap of the bottle or at least damage it, when the angle was correct.
 

StupidGenius

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The old water bottle popper was more prevalent when the water bottle was kept on top of the net. The NHL moved them a handful of years back, presumably to help with the overhead angle for goal reviews.

I dont have the clip, but someone perfectly unscrewed a water bottle cap with a shot attempt during play this year.
 
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OKR

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Datsyuk had one against Ducks in the playoffs 2013, well it didn’t smash the bottle but broke it/or the cup holder.
 
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1 Timer

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Never heard the term but if you hit the bottle just right its not that hard. Especially when the bottle is sitting on top of the net in a cold rink.
 
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Ratsreign

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The old water bottle popper was more prevalent when the water bottle was kept on top of the net. The NHL moved them a handful of years back, presumably to help with the overhead angle for goal reviews.

I dont have the clip, but someone perfectly unscrewed a water bottle cap with a shot attempt during play this year.
Hoffman had one that launched the cap straight up and over the glass, I don't remember which game it was, though.
 
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Cursed Lemon

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Bottles don't really explode these days because they're not made of that super brittle variety of plastic. My beer league goalie had one of those, I shattered the shit out of it with a shot in warmups while he was out of the net. Someone went without water that game, and it wasn't the goalie.
 

TheDawnOfANewTage

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I miss when the bottle would just sit up top of the net- goalies usually had it in the blocker corner, made for a nice target. Now it pretty much only happens on the one timer from that one angle, not as fun as when it was similar to a bar-down shot.
 

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