Most Embarrassing Beer League Moments

[Flashpoint]

Take your pick of the many many one timers where I miss the puck and fall down. Usually happens at least once or twice a game.

Come to think of it... in about 13 years of organized hockey, I don't believe I have ever scored a one timer goal. I should really stop trying.

Hope springs eternal!

[JayP]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

My most embarrassing rec league hockey moment is this: I play Center, because I'm (not to brag) very good at faceoffs. It's basically the only thing I do well, so I take a lot of pride in it, and I always have my game face on for when the puck drops.

So picture this: it's a one goal game and there's a faceoff in our own zone with just minutes left. I line up for the draw and as the ref releases the puck I lung forward and sweep the puck backward on my backhand as hard as I can.

It's not until the other team starts cheering that I realize I've launched the puck over the blocker of our goalie and right into my own net. I STILL haven't lived that one down. Needless to say, we lost that game--but far worse was the ribbing I got in the locker room over the obligatory case of PBR.

I'd say that your goalie deserves the ribbing for allowing a won face-off to score. Even if you hammered the puck it shouldn't be moving fast enough to get past your own goalie.

[Sample00]

Commerical Hockey League here in Edson.

pucking came sliding back to me from centre, I had a player from the other team bearing down on me, so I skated out to play the puck, cause I had a winger up near centre ice along the boards.
so I go to shoot the puck up towards my winger and completely fanned on the shot. the other teams players skated by me laughing and picked up the puck and put it in the empty net. thankfully we were winning handily at the time, but my team was just busting at gut laughing on the bench. I got some serious ribbing in the dressing room afterwards.
i wasnt allowed to play the puck again after that.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

.....Of course than the whole rink yells at me for hitting a girl and I have to fight off 3 of their players while no one on my team jumps in for me. I'm given a 5 minute major as the only penalty. Just can't win in that type of situation, they can run you and do whatever it's fair game. You try to get them back and you're the most evil jerk ever. I'm going off the ice saying, christ she's had it coming for two years, but to no sympathy.

Your team should have jumped in.

Personally, I don't think it matters what genitles you have.

She was on the ice, she was wearing pads, and she was being a b****.

Sounds like she had it coming, I say good job.

[Reaper]

This season, I was trying to block a shot off a defensive zone faceoff when the shooter managed to nail the shaft of my stick dead on and the puck did this crazy end over end flutter arc right over our goaltender's shoulder.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by JayP

The bat-catcher has to stand on home plate. There isn't a tag play at home instead a case of whether the bat-catcher catches the ball before the runner crosses the home plate line.

It's basically done to avoid unnecessary collisions.

Can we add refering to the "Back-Catcher" as the "Bat Catcher" to the embarassing moments thread.....I guess we just did.

[Sainters7]

Last summer I was playing part time on my cousin's beer softball league. I live in Edmonton so just to be a pain in the ass, I throw on a Calgary Flames t-shirt. They sent me out to left field, and I proceed to drop not one...not two...not three...but FOUR fly balls! The first one was just rust, but after the 2nd I think I was just rattled. So here's this guy wearing a Calgary Flames shirt in Edmonton, dropping everything that comes his way. I still hear about that one from my cuz, ugh...

The worst part was, I badly wanted to show em that Im not that bad, so I play 3rd base the next game. And what happens? First inning, fly ball to me...and I fudge it yet again. I FINALLY caught one in the 3rd, much to my relief.

[JiriHrdina]

Surely we've all done the superman. You know...when you are bolting along and for some reason the top half of your body starts to get a little ahead of the bottom half of your bottom. You start to feel yourself falling forwad as you are running....try to regain control...to new avail...and suddenly with no one around you...you do the face plant superman slide along the ice/field/floor.

I hate that.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Surely we've all done the superman. You know...when you are bolting along and for some reason the top half of your body starts to get a little ahead of the bottom half of your bottom. You start to feel yourself falling forwad as you are running....try to regain control...to new avail...and suddenly with no one around you...you do the face plant superman slide along the ice/field/floor.

I hate that.

I haven't done that--but I have done the "I has an invisible puck" breakaway--where you stick-check the puck off the opposing defender's stick and breeze past him for your breakaway moment of glory, only to realize you left the puck behind in the neutral zone.

I blame the bad ice.

[Locke]

Last year in Co-Ed Rec indoor soccer, the team we were playing against had this short girl as their goalkeeper.

This wasnt much of a game, we had it in control fairly early on, we were trying to maintain pressure on them and I was playing defense at the first line when this perfect cross-field pass comes at me.

I mean perfect. There was nobody in the way, a clear shooting lane, the whole works.

So I one-timed this thing all the way to hell.

It smoked her right on the nose. Blood everywhere. Her face went off like Old Faithful, just a geyser of blood all over the place.

It gets worse. The ball still has a ton of energy.

So she falls flat on her back with her head on the goal line and this thing goes straight up into the air and its falling in slow-motion.

So this spinning ball of bloody death lands right on her nose again and trickles into the net.

She is screaming and crying and bleeding....I just went straight to the bench. Everyone was totally shocked that I had just ended this chick.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by JayP

I'd say that your goalie deserves the ribbing for allowing a won face-off to score. Even if you hammered the puck it shouldn't be moving fast enough to get past your own goalie.

That's what I kept saying! Didn't seem to help.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

Your team should have jumped in.

Personally, I don't think it matters what genitles you have.

She was on the ice, she was wearing pads, and she was being a b****.

Sounds like she had it coming, I say good job.

It could have been worse.... At least my Dad was smart enough to move the car out back and let me walk out and give me a ride home rather than throw me to the wolves and make me walk home through an angry mob of hockey mom's!

Two years later in Midget/Juevenille hockey I was playing goal one night since our regular goalie couldn't make it and she scored 4 goals on me. Mostly because she couldn't raise the puck and anything on the ice and I was hooped. My team lost the game 12-11. Again I had to hear, the girl scored 4 goals on you ha ha! I never tried to play goal again with equipment.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

That's what I kept saying! Didn't seem to help.

If it was straight at him along the ice, then sure. But if it went over his shoulder, I dunno man, I think that's on you, no way would he be expecting that. Maybe I'm just backing my bretheren, but I've been scored on quite a few times by my own D-man and it's quite shocking, you just don't expect it. haha nothing like what happened with you though, that'd be quite the thing to see.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

If it was straight at him along the ice, then sure. But if it went over his shoulder, I dunno man, I think that's on you, no way would he be expecting that. Maybe I'm just backing my bretheren, but I've been scored on quite a few times by my own D-man and it's quite shocking, you just don't expect it. haha nothing like what happened with you though, that'd be quite the thing to see.

It was over his blocker on the short side.

[foofighter15]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

Take your pick of the many many one timers where I miss the puck and fall down. Usually happens at least once or twice a game.

Come to think of it... in about 13 years of organized hockey, I don't believe I have ever scored a one timer goal. I should really stop trying.

Hope springs eternal!

David Hale?

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Surely we've all done the superman. You know...when you are bolting along and for some reason the top half of your body starts to get a little ahead of the bottom half of your bottom. You start to feel yourself falling forwad as you are running....try to regain control...to new avail...and suddenly with no one around you...you do the face plant superman slide along the ice/field/floor.

I hate that.

Last week I took my dogs to a dog park and they notice a couple dogs on the other side of the Lake and it's snowing. I go to chase after them and hit the lake...Well fluffy snow on top of ice, I pull that very move...I realize there are people around and instead of cursing....have to say...I'm okay.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Last week I took my dogs to a dog park and they notice a couple dogs on the other side of the Lake and it's snowing. I go to chase after them and hit the lake...Well fluffy snow on top of ice, I pull that very move...I realize there are people around and instead of cursing....have to say...I'm okay.

Best one I did was in softball. First game with a team....first at bat for me I do the 'old swinging bunt. So I'm truckin' down to first base and about 2/3rds the way down...I feel the superman start to happen. Sure enough about 5 steps away I lose balance fall forward and slide into 1st base.

Come around to score when the next guy doubles. Get back to the bench expecting the usually ribbing and instead my team-mates greet me with "man...what hustle...we've never seen anyone slide into first base before...great play!".


Yeah...that's what I was trying to do.

[RougeUnderoos]

Great thread. Lots of laughs.

In minor hockey I had the puck on my stick and I sneezed and fell down and they took it the other way. They didn't score but still, pretty bad.

It was right in front of the bench too and everyone on both teams heard me.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

It was over his blocker on the short side.

haha ya buddy I'd have to put that one on you. I've had my own bad moments in net though. Nothin that tops my four dropped fly balls thing I posted earlier, but I'm arguably the worst puckhandling goalie of all-time. I've tried to put a puck past a streaking forward, only to send a wimpy pass right on his stick so many times it's stupid. I refuse to play pucks now because of it, but whenever I join a new team our D-men don't realize this and thus leave it for me. They have to find out the hard way and learn pretty quick to never let me touch it again....

[FireFly]

My dad was playing a pick up game of baseball at a company function way back when, had a few wobbly pops and went to bat... Hit a home run, but his shorts ended up around his ankles as he was rounding first... both funny and frightening as a child to witness.