Does anyone lose?

[MeestaShane]

Here's the scenario: It's 0-0 in the third period. The visiting team slashes and gets caught, but the home team has the puck, thus a delayed penalty call. Home team pulls their goalie for the 6th attacker. After the 6th attacker is on the ice, a forward (we'll call him Bure) mucks up a pass back to the blue line and the puck goes in his own net. Theoretically, the game ends 1-0.

Does the goalie who wasn't even on the ice at the time get the loss despite not having given up a goal? More importantly, would the goal even count? Even if the goal didn't count, I could come up with other scenarios (outlandish though they may be) where there would be a 6th attacker in a tie game and the above scenario would happen. I'm just curious if the goalie gets the shaft.

[GrasValley]

As far as the goal counting goes, yes it does count. When you pull your goalie, you have to assume that the puck will enter your net only after the opposition touches it. If the opposition touches it, the whistle blows for the penalty of course. As far as the goaltender getting the loss, I'm not 100% sure, but I would bet that he does get the loss. As unfortunate as it is, he was the goaltender for the losing team which puts one down in the L column.

[zkytek]

Hi there,
To answer your question, the goalie unfortunately would have a 1 added to the loss column. Although, the goal would not effect his Goals Against AVG in any way, it would just be added to the empty net goal column instead.

[UnReGiStErEd]

And who gets credited with a goal ?
As far as I know that if a goal is scored in its own net the player who was last to touch the puck gets the goal and imagine if on this shift no one from the visiting team touches the puck, which player would get the goal ?
Does this mean that a player(on previous shift) who wasn't even on the ice getscredited with the goal ?
or as I also think that the player who took the faceoff might get the goal ?

[TDHarvey9]

The players closest to the goal, would get credit.

[BucsWeb]

I believe UnReGiStErEd is correct, the last person on the opposing team to touch the puck gets credit for the goal.

Case in point, Lightning @ Capitals last Friday. Vinny Lecavalier was the last Lightning player to touch the puck before the Capitals gained possession. Sergei Gonchar was attepmting to pass the puck across the rink (through the goal crease like a dummy) when the puck his Olaf Kolzig's skate and bounced into the net. Lecavalier was credited with the goal since he was the last Lightning player to touch the puck. Granted, this is a different situation than the one in question, but if I'm not mistaken, it's always the last player to touch the puck.

NHL Rule 57b states "A goal shall be scored if the puck is put into the goal in any way by a player of the defending side. The player of the attacking side who last played the puck shall be credited with the goal but no assist shall be awarded."