When Corey Perry scored the Edmonton Oilers‘ second goal of the evening, he did so with some, er, unconventional assistance.
Mere moments before Perry ripped the one-timer, a fan at Rogers Place inexplicably threw a plate of nachos onto the ice. Perry, unperturbed, skated right past them and promptly shot the puck cleanly past Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson.
Though the Capitals won the game, there was a bit of head-scratching from players and coaches as to how that goal was permitted.
“I’ve never seen nachos and cheese on the ice,” Thompson told Sportsnet’s Gene Principe with a smile after the game. “It’s a weak goal on my part, I kind of stopped playing. I was distracted, I’ve never seen that before… It is what it is.”
Head coach Spencer Carbury shared in his disbelief.
“That’s a first. We just talked about it in the coaches’ office. I don’t think I’ve ever seen nachos on the ice, National Hockey League game,” he said. “We were saying, ‘can they save them? Maybe bring ’em into the locker room?’”
“I don’t think there’s much they can do,” Carbury added. “I didn’t even notice it, and then the guys were yelling, ‘there’s nachos on the ice,’ and I don’t know. Can we challenge that?”
For his part, Perry told reporters that he didn’t even notice the nachos on the ice prior to his goal.
“I didn’t even see them, honestly,” he said. “Whether they were there before, whatever, I was focused on the play.
from Sportsnet.ca
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