With all the commotion of MacKinnon being “robbed” of an assist, I went back and watched this. Kuch is much more deserving in this situation than MacKinnon was in his, and the Avs even petitioned for it. Why didn’t we do the same for Kuch? Or am I missing something here? I read that there can be assists on own goals but that seems to not be true.
by Dubstep_Duck
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Exactly same exact situation, not all points are created equal though in this case so karma K guess? I’ll take it tjough
By definition, you can’t get assists on own goals that are directed into the net by the opposing player. You can still get an assist if the puck deflects off of the player, like you may be thinking of, but that isn’t technically an own goal. Only person that gets credit is the person that last touched the puck.
People are annoyed at the MacKinnon situation because he was chasing a Gretzky record. Anytime someone can get close to one of 99’s records, it’s gonna be talked about. Gretzky had a 40 game point streak at home, which was the entire season at the time. Since then, games in a season have gone from 80 to 82, which means that theoretically, it could be broken and not tied. MacKinnon had gotten a point in every home game up to that point, but obviously didn’t get the assists on the own goal which lead to his point streak being broken and dreams of seeing a Gretzky record broken this season were crushed.
We, and more importantly Kuch, don’t care about the avalanche or mackinnon
Roy shoots the puck in his own net. Point touched it last pretty clear by the rules it’s points goal unassisted. Kuch did not get robbed here. It’s pretty clear.