WEIRDEST GOAL YET?

Oilers 5
Dallas 6
after an unexpected OT and shootout

Game Notes:
1- Obviously #1 - The strangest goal in quite a while to tie the game up. Watch the highlights for this one. Even though I'm sure everyone has seen it and commented on the goal already here goes:
With seconds left in the game and the Oilers with an empty net in an attempt to tie the game up, Stars forward Patrick Stefan picks up a M-A Bergeron cough-up at the Oiler blueline and attempts to carefully skate as close to the empty net as possible, misses and the Oilers quickly recover the puck, send it to Ryan Smyth who feeds clutch-meister Ales Hemsky for another important late-game goal. Crazy.
Interesting note on this goal: Two games in a row, a Marc-Andre Bergeron flub translates into a sweet Ales Hemsky goal. First the eventual winning goal against Florida came after Bergeron lost the puck at the same blueline, recovered it and fed Hemsky.
Then the weirdo goal tonight.
Bergeron's lumps of coal are being pressed into Hemsky's diamonds.

2- Bergeron should learn to use his power for good and not evil.

It seems that Bergeron has a unique ability to injure NHL goaltenders in key situations.
First, we all remember Bergie conspiring to injure Dwayne Roloson in the Stanley Cup Final series, ending the hot goalie's amazing playoff run and leaving us with Ty Conklin and his assist on the Carolina Game One winner.
Then Bergeron sends a rocket of a slapper right into Stars backup goalie Mike Smith, which cracks his helmet and results in the Dallas starter, Marty Turco, taking over in the third period. Up until that point, the Oilers had managed to score 4 times on Smith in 17 shots. Injuring Smith did not help the Oilers' cause. This meant the Oilers wound up facing a better goalie in Marty Turco(who stopped 10 of 11 shots in the third and two shots in OT) and one who now has a 4-1 record in shootouts.

Message to Bergy: If you do have this uncanny ability to injure goalies: Injure the other team's goalie. But don't injure a goalie that isn't doing well.
Next time. Work on it. You do have the power. Time to hone it. Try your voodoo shite on Kiprusoff in Calgary January 13th. That one will work.

3- How angry is Stoll?
The guy is a fierce competitor.
His penalty in the third period resulted in the Stars getting a 5 on 3 PP. Then it was 4-3. Then, on Stoll's remaining penalty, Dallas scored again. 4-4 tie. Despite all the distraction with the bizarro goal and the OT and the shootout, I'm sure Stoll remembers that.
Some guys bounce back. Some guys sulk. Stoll seems like a bouncer-backer.
We'll see tomorrow night.

That's the weird stuff I noticed.
Nice to see Nedved, Horcoff and Lupul all score. They all need goals badly for different reasons.
Nice to see Ryan Smyth with 20 goals in 29 games, the highest Goal Per Game total in the NHL (unless there's some call-up out there who has one goal in his first game). Can we say $5.5 million?