Ryan McLeod got his first career hat trick tonight against the Carolina Hurricanes. That is a great achievement for a team that hasn't had many good nights, and against a team that is actually pretty good! Let's enjoy some video of his capstone goal
Oh, do you see what happened there? McLeod scored his first two goals like the quality hockey player he is, and then because the Sabres can't have anything nice as they are a franchise based out of Buffalo, he got the third goal in about as strange a manner as possible.
After the empty net, full length shot rang off the post, McLeod was free and clear for the rebound and ol' Sasquatch Brett Burns did a flying Paul Bunyan maneuver and hacked his stick in half. That is a penalty shot, and given that the 'Canes had already pulled their goalie, it was an awarded goal for Buffalo.
But who goes in the stat book as the goal scorer? We already know that it was McLeod, given that you made it this far in the article, but McLeod never touched the puck. Tage Thompson was the last one to touch it, as he was the one who fired it down the ice in the first place. Ultimately, the scorers decided that, since it would have been McLeod's penalty shot, he should get the resulting goal, voila, hat trick.
Thompson, by ringing the post, wasn't credited with a shot on goal. Nor was McLeod, despite the credit for the goal. And in the third period, neither did anyone wearing a Sabres jersey.
The Sabres' goals outnumbered their shots. Because there were no shots. It was the first time in recorded history that a team scored a goal in a 20 minute period while not recording a shot. Only in Buffalo could you score a game clinching goal and still have universal agreement that the offense needs work.
Congrats to Ryan McLeod though, that's certainly one you will always remember
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