Top 5...
The countdown continues with the Top 5 most memorable goals...
#5 - "Call-up steals the show."
A few weeks after being called up to Andrews team, it happened again, only this time it wasn't just 1 goal...It was 4...
I opened the scoring making it 1-0, then 2-1 after it was tied...Late in the 2nd I took a pass from Andrew and backhanded it top cheeeeeese for the Hatty...Later in the 3rd I took a breakaway pass and scored on the same move I used before, the five hole can opener.
#4 - "#1 in the country vs. Jordan Chong"
Playing in a building that the top ranked team in the country hadn't lost in in about 100 games this year we were down 1-0 when late in the 1st I took a 4 on 4 semi-breakaway pass,blew by the d-man and buried my first of the year.
Down 2-1 early in the 3rd a loose puck popped out to me in the slot that I buried blocker side on the nations MVP Kyle Jones, tying the game at 2-2 which would be the final and would send me on to the first player in 2 years for our team to win league player of the week honors.
#3- "OT upset."
In overtime we were playing River Falls in their building the #4 team in the country, at the very end of a huge penalty kill by us our D-man airmailed one out of the zone and had their d flat footed...I raced after it, got it first and buried 5-hole for the ot win...
I continued to jump into the glass right in front of their student section where our whole team would join the celebration as we got middle fingers and beaks from the fans...Whatta feeling.
#2 - "Dingle dangle...Upset...Scholarship."
My last year of Jr we were huge underdogs in the Ontario final four tourney. Our opening game we were playing the #2 team in the country that was favored to win it all.
After going down 1-0 in the 2nd, a chip off the boards gave us an odd man rush. As I carried it down the left boards the D-man began to cut in on me. Once he got close enough I pulled a siiiick toe drag around him and shot a quick one which went 5-hole. We went on to win 3-2, shock the country and I went on to play where I am today because of it.
#1 - "Biggest goal in school history."


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1990 saw the last time my school defeated the University of Wisconsin-Superior. We were playing them in a must win game in the playoffs to force a 20 minute tie breaker game. Down 3-0 with 12 minutes left we found a way to score 4 and win the game to force the tie breaker.
We went down 1-0 only 30 seconds into it and saw the next 18ish minutes go back and forth with chances at both sides. As we were pressing with the goalie pulled and 19 seconds left on the clock one of their players intentionally knocked the net off...Meaning, a penalty shot...
As we skated back to our bench to see who our coach's would pick I had a feeling it was going to be me, even though I was a first year guy...I wanted it though.
Coach looked at me and said, "You got this Chonger?" I responded "Fuck yeah"
As I skated out into the spotlight I looked at the 2 thousand plus fans all standing, I picked out my dad and Trevor in the crowd then looked at the puck at center, said to myself I got this...
The whistle blew and suddenly I couldn't hear the thousands at all. I skated down the right side, faked the shot, opened up the 5-hole and buried. Suddenly my hearing came back and our huge student section erupted as I pulled one of the best cellys of my life...I one knee fist pump past their bench, into a Theo Fleury bail out before getting tackled by my teamates at center ice.
The game would goto overtime and we would end up winning the game.
Now whenever I'm at school I'm known to many as "The guy who scored the penalty shot"
It's pretty siiiick...
Woooo...Dingle dangle, many more siiiick goals to come.



