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Any known instances of this? Trying to avoid defensemen filling in at wing or forwards filling in on defense. Simply just looking for 3 true defenseman that have combined on a scoring play.
There have been 126 such goals since 1917/18 season, out of about 255K scored with three participants (~ 0.05%):
Note: I only have current or latest positions the players played. They might've have different deployment at the time of the goal.
[20120405: FLA @ WSH 0:42 of period 3:
ED JOVANOVSKI from BRIAN CAMPBELL and JASON GARRISON
20140104: NSH @ FLA 14:52 of period 3:
SETH JONES from ROMAN JOSI and SHEA WEBER
20141203: EDM @ WPG 16:54 of period 3:
DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN from MARK STUART and JACOB TROUBA
20150214: EDM @ OTT 3:06 of period 2:
MARK FAYNE from JEFF PETRY and ANDREW FERENCE
20160321: PHI @ NYI 13:01 of period 2:
BRANDON MANNING from ANDREW MACDONALD and MARK STREIT
The list is too large to post as a message. The five latest ones are above. The full list is attached.
The NHL public live boxscore feeds.Where's this data from?
I assume so. I checked the last goal, it's a such one.Are we thinking the most common scenario here is a defenseman served a penalty, two defensemen were on the penalty kill, then the serving player got out of the box and got the puck passed to him (from one of the PK D, in turn from the other PK D) and went in to score?
Fun facts:
- There were four such goals by Reg Fleming, Scott Stevens, Dale Tallon and Jimmy Roberts each.
- There were two goals by Bob Murray from Phil Russell and Mike O'Connell
- There were two goals by Scott Stevens from Mike McEwen and Larry Murphy
- There were two goals by Al MacInnis from Gary Suter and Paul Reinhart.
Unfortunately, it looks like the NHL squashed the information from the original boxscores and only referenced the latest assignment. I checked the goalGreat list.
More than likely Jimmy Roberts was being used as a Forward for most if not all the Goals he was involved in.
1971/04/08: DAL at STL @ 43:45 | JIMMY ROBERTS | CARL BREWER | BARCLAY PLAGER |
Unfortunately, it looks like the NHL squashed the information from the original boxscores and only referenced the latest assignment. I checked the goal
and STL has seven D on the roster of that game: three Plagers, two Arbours, Picardo and Roberts.[TBODY] [/TBODY]
1971/04/08: DAL at STL @ 43:45 JIMMY ROBERTS CARL BREWER BARCLAY PLAGER
Similarly, with the recent Byfuglien goal - the game it was scored had WPG with seven D, although I am sure Buff was used as a RW.
Fun facts:
- There were four such goals by Reg Fleming, Scott Stevens, Dale Tallon and Jimmy Roberts each.
- There were two goals by Bob Murray from Phil Russell and Mike O'Connell
- There were two goals by Scott Stevens from Mike McEwen and Larry Murphy
- There were two goals by Al MacInnis from Gary Suter and Paul Reinhart.
Fun list!
Baldy Northcott, Reg Fleming, Jimmy Roberts, Dale Tallon and Ron Greschner were probably playing forward for their goals.
Scott Stevens’ goals circa 1985 probably came on the power play while playing in front of the net, not as a defenceman.
Are we thinking the most common scenario here is a defenseman served a penalty, two defensemen were on the penalty kill, then the serving player got out of the box and got the puck passed to him (from one of the PK D, in turn from the other PK D) and went in to score?
Well....
They can be listed at any position. That by no means that is the position they played during the game.
Roberts is a tough one. He did play a lot of D with the Blues but to be honest he probably played even more Wing especially after his 1st season here.
I normalize all the teams to the latest franchise code.I was thinking it could also occur during a line change.....one d-man passes to his blueline partner before subbing off, then the new player gets the ensuing pass and scores.
Surprised to see DAL used in a boxscore from the 70's, twenty years before they had a team.
One would think this would happen with the Predators every year.
2010-11 Nashville Predators Roster and Statistics | Hockey-Reference.com
The predators in 2010-11 seems like it would have had several goals being scored by a Dman being assisted by 2 other Dmen, trailing late in the 3rd period they could have had Weber/Suter/Franson out there with 3 forwards.
20200227: TOR at FLA @ 02:23 | MARK PYSYK | AARON EKBLAD | KEITH YANDLE |
20200203: FLA at TOR @ 42:20 | MARK PYSYK | MIKE MATHESON | JOSH BROWN |
20191214: BOS at FLA @ 42:46 | MARK PYSYK | AARON EKBLAD | KEITH YANDLE |