The 79th in our 118-part series.
Goal-mouth scrambles
You know how idiots like to say the penalty shot is “the most exciting play in hockey”? Well, they’re idiots. Because really, what’s more exciting than those wild scrambles in front of the net? The times where it seems like every guy on the ice is in the blue paint, and no one knows where the puck is, and you’re in the stands or in front of your TV just screaming uncontrollably and incoherently, whichever side of the puck your team is on? Whether the replay eventually shows that the puck was never in any danger of creeping over the goal line, or whether somehow in the crazy melee someone managed to punch it past the goalie, those few frenzied seconds of anarchic madness are, in our opinion, the most thrilling, heart-pounding, get-you-up-out-of-your-seat part of any hockey game.
