Do you get a half goal if...

[OnAFly]

...Half the puck goes in the net?

http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/blogs/57299562.html

How hard is the shot that breaks a puck in half? That's just nuts!

[cbrooks]

Wow! Didn't think that could ever happen. Thanks posting

[solbes]

No goal, and no half goal either. You do get on Youtube though

"In 1900, Fred C Waghorn refereed a game where a puck split in two and one half ended up in the goal, after much deliberation he ruled it as 'no goal' because the official definition of a puck included specific dimensions and since the piece of rubber in the goal did not meet these specifications, it could not be a puck. He therefore instituted the rule that the entire puck must cross the line for a goal to count."

cited from azhockey.com

[spearchucker]

Neither half of the puck went in the net anyway. Puck was probably frozen too hard.

[leech~~]

Use to happen once in awhile when I was young and played outside in the cold for parkboard. I played Goalie so seen a lot of odd things happen with the puck around the net.

[lovebigbluegills]

My dad told me stories about that happening occasionally when most of the hockey was played on outdoor rinks. The specific one that sticks out in my head was when Thief River Falls was playing up in Williams.

[solbes]

This apparently happens a lot outside when Mercury levels plummet. But to happen indoors is a very rare event indeed. Must've been the combination of a great slap shot and some kind of puck manufacturing defect.

[jwmiller33]

i have played hockey since i was 6 (now 23) with almost all of those years being a tender... ive had a lot of pucks fired at me over the years and ive seen them break when going off the post before. it has more to do with temperature than shot speed. this only happened outdoors. ahhhh the good old days when all of our games/practices were played outside

[MinnesnowtaWild]

i have played hockey since i was 6 (now 23) with almost all of those years being a tender... ive had a lot of pucks fired at me over the years and ive seen them break when going off the post before. it has more to do with temperature than shot speed. this only happened outdoors. ahhhh the good old days when all of our games/practices were played outside

That sounds exactly like me...started playing hockey when I was 6, I am not 23, and I played goalie for most of my youth career (I now play forward). And we used to have practice outdoors in like mites before we got our own rink.

[mixxedbagg]

My 9 year old has 2 games in Virginia later today....he'll get a kick out of this clip--and probably talk smack to his buddies that he's gonna break a puck today. Thanks for posting it.

[Weed Shark]

Use to happen once in awhile when I was young and played outside in the cold for parkboard. I played Goalie so seen a lot of odd things happen with the puck around the net.

Your name wouldn't happen to be "Gump Worsley" would it? I think he split some pucks across his nose.