4373jml@hou2a.UUCP (08/15/83)
Has any other goalie besides Billy Smith of the Islanders scored a goal in an NHL regular or playoff game ?
jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (08/16/83)
Yes. Billy Smith is the only goalie to have scored a goal in the NHL. Rogie Vachon was given credit for a goal in a game between the Kings and the Islanders a year or two before Smith's goal when it was thought that he was the last King to touch an attempted Islander pass to the point that ended up in the empty Islander net. The goal was taken away from Vachon later that night when it was discovered that the last King to touch the puck was actually Butch Goring. I believe the first goal scored by a professional goalie was in the early seventies by Michel Plasse of the Central Hockey League's Kansas City Blues. He deflected a save into the air, and it landed around centre ice and slid into the empty opposition net. Smith said he'll tell his grandchildren that he made a save, took the puck on his stick, skated around the entire team, deked out the goalie and scored. Unfortunately, I don't remember how it really happened or who it was against.