This seems a little on the nose: Ryan Suter, a defenseman who almost always seems to be economical with his positioning, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time in a big way on Saturday.
Consider this: he wasn’t just the victim of a dreaded own-goal. That puck actually deflected off of his face/visor, making it something of an “own-face.”
Marian Gaborik was credited with his second goal of the season for the scoring-deprived Los Angeles Kings against the Minnesota Wild, tying the game 2-2:
The Kings Twitter account had some fun with it, as you’d expect:
Marian Gaborik: still one of the best snipers in the league. pic.twitter.com/pobCfPkj71
— LA Kings (@LAKings) January 7, 2017
Nice.
Some might say that the Kings’ first two goals capture how they’ve been scoring in general lately: 1) Jeff Carter or 2) blind happenstance.