Consider this one of the weirdest ways we've ever seen any game -- not just a hockey game -- end.
With the score between the Phoenix Coyotes and the Buffalo Sabres tied 1-1 in overtime Tuesday, goalie Mike Smith blocked a shot from the Sabres' Mark Pysyk that rebounded into the air. That's when a fellow Coyote tried to knock it away, only to have the puck take a very unfortunate detour -- right into Smith's pants.
As Smith and his teammates looked for the puck, Smith backed up into his own net. Unfortunately for him, that meant a goal for the Sabres:
(Source: NHL screen shot)
(Source: NHL screen shot)
(Source: NHL screen shot)
(Source: NHL screen shot)
As the referees huddled to figure out what happened, one of Smith's teammates tried to slyly fish the puck out of the back of Smith's pants and throw it on the ice. It didn't work:
(Source: NHL screen shot)
Pysyk was credited with the goal and that ended the game.
The Associated Press nabbed a great shot of the puck as it was stuck in Smith's pants:
Buffalo Sabres' Mark Pysyk (3) follows his own rebound along with Tyler Ennis (63) as the puck falls into the pants of Phoenix Coyotes' Mike Smith (41) during the overtime session of an NHL hockey game in Buffalo, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Smith slid with the puck into the net for the game-winning goal after he and the puck crossed the goal line as Buffalo won 2-1. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)
Now see how it looked as it happened live:
(H/T: SBNation)
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