Joe Thorton passes Trottier and Bure as he moves up to 7th in all time empty net goals!

[Rabid Ranger]

Where is Wheeler on this? Certain Jets fans want know.

 

[Nut Upstrom]

What a puck hog

 

[jetsforever]

Reads first half of title
Oh, nice

reads second half of the title
Oh come on

Reads who posted it
...

 

[jetsforever]

Where is Wheeler on this? Certain Jets fans want know.

According to that list he's tied for 12th all-time with Kane, Bergeron, Messier

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

we had a joke that when henrik sedin scored an EN goal he was visualizing passing it to the back of the net.

i’d say the same for jojo

 

[HockeyVirus]

I think that says a lot about how his coaches feel about his defensive play.

Babcock didn't play him there. Keefe does and he's great at it.

 

[hoglund]

I didn't know that they kept that stat.

 

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

Thanks Mulletman. I was wondering where one could find empty net stats.

Very interesting.

 

[Reality Czech]

One reason is more games played, so they get more chances to do it. The other maybe more parity in the game, resulting in more games that are close and goalies are pulled. Also, I don’t know, if the coaches always used to pull the goalie with three goals down and five minutes to go, like we sometimes see now. I don’t remember seeing that as a kid in the 90s, but idk.

I think you are right, seems like goalies were pulled closer to a minute left instead of 2 or 3 like now. I also feel like they didn't pull the so much when down by two goals, whereas now it happens almost every time.

 

[TheGroceryStick]

There should be a stat for EN goals scored from behind center....and shooting percentage. Lol

Which guys love that risk/reward?

 

[TheGroceryStick]

I think that says a lot about how his coaches feel about his defensive play.

It's definitely odd considering how he literally can obtain the puck whenever he wants....even when flat-footed, between the leg stick lift and going the other way as guys play "ghost puck" thinking it's still on there stick.

 

[Spargon]

Nah, for years he’s been out consistently defending when the other team has the net empty. With Keefe he has been the go to center all situations.
He just doesn’t bury them when the net is empty. One of the best goal scorers all time but can’t score eng, very odd.

It's usually him or Marner outlet passing to Hyman who gets it.

 

[weinsink]

Hell of a stat slowjoe lol

 

[pcruz]

A team should allow him to score 4 EN goals in a game.
Just for the celebration.

I mean, after the first EN goal, the game is absolutely finished.

 

[frisco]

With a two goal lead and 20 seconds left in the game Pavel Bure took his game to another level. I was in a fantasy pool and we started calling ENG "Bure's" in his honor.

My Best-Carey

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

If he gets to to #1 all time in empty net goals he should finally whip it out for all of us to see.

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

Gz to him. Is it an occasion to pull out the rooster?

What a man does in the privacy of his own home is his and only his business.

We will never know if the rooster happened when he got back to his room after this epic empty net goal achievement.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

Gretzky who

 

[IceNeophyte]

Joe Thornton for the Hockey Hall of Empty Net Goals!

 

[overlords]

And Max Pacioretty took this personally

 

[Frosty415]

 

[Dr Quincy]

It seems like Joe Thorton still is able to add to his legacy at 41 years old as he passed legendary players like Bryan Trottier and Pavel bure and moved up to 7th all time in empty net goals with this beauty:

Not too bad for Joe Thorton to be in the all time top 10 in a goals category as he's terrible at scoring goals. Here's the all time list for anybody that's interested: NHL Stats
Funny how Thorton has as many empty net goals as Wayne Gretzky has empty net assists. For some reason Gretzky was terrible at empty net assists as he has 4 less empty net assists than Nicklas Backstrom.

Great player.

Meaningless stat.

 

[Mulletman]

Great player.

Meaningless stat.

No it's not. It's another stat that Gretzky dominated with 56 empty net goals. And it could be broken by Ovechkin who has 39 or even by Aho as well who just put up his 19th empty net goal in just 5 seasons in the league.