If you are a goalie you definitely do not want to be on this type of highlight reel. To make matters worse, it happened midway through the third period in a tie game.

Senators goalie Craig Anderson gets embarrassed when the Bruins Dennis Seidenberg winds up from center ice and lets one fly. The puck kicks up just enough to slip past Anderson, who looks like someone just ran over his puppy which is what you’re supposed to look like if you let in a goal from 90 feet.

Dennis Seidenberg wound up and stepped into a slap shot from center ice, hoping just to get the puck deep into Ottawa’s zone or maybe generate a quick rebound.

Seidenberg was as surprised as anyone else to see the puck skip off the ice, then get past Senators goalie Craig Anderson for the tiebreaking goal with 12:51 left as the Boston Bruins rallied for a 4-3 win on Tuesday night.

“I don’t know if it was a lucky bounce or the way it came off of my stick,” Seidenberg said. “It just seemed to bounce off the ice and kind of was rising up and it was tough to read I guess for him and somehow it went in.”

Somewhere Brett Hull is giggling. In all the years since Hull’s little incident in the Stanley Cup Finals against Buffalo where Hull got a goal even though he was cleary in the crease.

Apparently, refs and instant replay are a bit paranoid (or incompetent, either one) and causing trouble for the goaltenders because Tyler Bozak of the Toronto Maple Leafs gets his goal pulled back off the board for goaltender interference.

It’s a bogus call as Bozak didn’t appear to really be in violation, just the opposite of Hull’s allowed goal, and the goal is disallowed.

I’m not sure what the refs were doing or why the rules don’t apply to review this goal but it appears the refs made a rush judgement and it should have been corrected. Simple plays like this should not be happening in 2012. I mean, this isn’t a World Cup Soccer game here.

Even though this non-goal happened early in the game, the Leafs would go on to lose to the Pens 5-4.

Marc-Andre Fleury goes to the two-pad stack to make a save. It works but doesn’t quite get the job done. Thankfully, Pens defender Kris Letang makes a diving save of his own to highlight a sweet 3rd period comeback by Pittsburgh to beat the Leafs 5-4.

Tyler Bozak of the Toronto Maple Leafs was having some more bad luck Tuesday night. First, Bozak’s goal gets disallowed. Then this happens. On a breakaway attempt Bozak gets stuffed by Marc-Andre and then the pucks sails to the left. Kris Letang is there to save Fleury’s tail with an equally nice save.

This is why players should be mic’d up for big games. During the 2012 NHL All Star Game in Ottawa, Ontario, we were treated to a great shootout by Team Chara and Team Alfredsson. In the end, home favorite Daniel Alfredsson and his hand-picked team lost to Team Zdeno Chara, of the Boston Bruins, 12-9 at Scotiabank Place.

Marian Gaborik’s three goals and one assist topped Alfredsson’s two goals and one assist, which nixed Alfredsson’s chance at MVP as Gaborik took the trophy.

In the first period, Henrik Sedin of Team Alfredsson makes the score 3-2 in favor of Chara and after the score you can hear Sedin’s linemate for the game, Philly’s Scotty Hartnell, drop some trash talk on rival Maple Leafs defender Dion Phaneuf as he skates by the Chara bench. Check out the great line at about 27 seconds into this video.

Philly’s Scott Hartnell, despite needing a haircut, did his best to impress his dad this weekend. And pop must be proud as the shaggy haired Hartnell pulled out his 6th career hat trick against the Boston Bruins.

In the stands you can see Hartnell’s dad wearing the biggest smile in the world as he watches on as his son lights the lamp. Not a bad day to check out your kid at his work.

The natural hat trick occurred in the second period and the fans littered the ice in the proper tradition which made the officials postpone the remaining 46 seconds of the second period to clean up the hats.

[via Yahoo! Sports] Hartnell got Philadelphia within 3-2 on a power-play goal a few minutes into the period when he blasted a one-timer while down on one knee.

Hartnell then scored a nifty goal to tie it at 3. He caught a pass from Giroux, dropped the puck, turned around and lifted a shot over defenseman Adam McQuaid that fluttered above Thomas’ stick.

Hartnell put the Flyers up 4-3 in the final minute of the period. He lost his stick during the shift, skated over to the bench to grab another one, returned to the circle and ripped another shot past Thomas.

Fans littered the ice with hats to celebrate Hartnell’s sixth career three-goal game and first since Dec. 20, 2008. With only 46.5 seconds left in the second, players went back to their lockers and added the extra time to the final period.

First off, and you’ll noticed this in the video as well, is that the alt jerseys for the New York Islanders are God awful.  I mean nasty.  This franchise can’t do anything right. It looks like a decaying smurf, circa 1995 and I don’t even know what that means it’s so nasty.

But just the opposite of the Fugly Isles jerseys is the perfect OT goal by John Tavares. Despite looking fashionably horrendous, Tavares doesn’t let it stop him from strutting his stuff.

John Tavares, the top pick of the 2009 NHL draft, knocks the puck from mid-air and propels the Isles to an OT win. It’s the Isles third straight win and fourth victory in five games.

Uh oh, looks like there’s a little drama brewing in Edmonton. Oilers star Taylor Hall, sporting a wicked black eye from the skate to the face incident, is none too happy that his coach pulled the goalie during the final minutes of the game against Calgary.

Down by three goals the Oilers pull their goalie and that of course sets up the scenario of another Flamers goal. Hall is trying to block the shot that led to another goal but comes up short. That’s why he’s a center, not a goalie I suppose.

After the goal you can see Hall say out loud ‘Why pull the goalie?”

Looks like soemone’s not happy with the coaches decision and that means the talking heads at CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada have something to talk about.

Edmonton Oilers forward Taylor Hall visibly upset at the tactics from Tom Renney late in the 3rd period while trailing by 3 against the Calgary Flames on Saturday Jan 21, 2012. CBC Commentators discuss the behaviour during Hockey Night in Canada’s CBC After Hours.

Mike Smith does an amazing save on a nice deke by Datsyuk in a shootout. The Coyotes and Red Wings battled it out in OT with Detroit getting the win in a shootout but Mike Smith does all he can to keep his team in the game.

The Coyotes have stumbled upon a great goalie in Smith, who isn’t on the best team but he has been able to compile a nice 17-12-7 record and helping the Coyotes stay in the playoff race.

It’s not the first time we’ve talked about a great Mike Smith glove save and it’s surely not the last. Check out Smith as he keeps his wits about him to stop this brilliant Datsyuk deke during the shootout.

Mike Smith stops Marian Gaborik on an overtime penalty shot with an unbelievable lunging save. Smith keeps his stick down as he bends over almost backwards when Gaborik sneaks over to the side of the net. Gaborik went to the forehand and and it looked like he had Smith beat before Smith turned into a slinky and sprawled to his right to get the stick on the puck.

Smith made this beauty at 3:10 of overtime and sadly for Smith it didn’t hold off the red-hot Rangers who would win in a shootout, 2-1.

Hey, if you don’t get too many goals you might as well take advantage of times like this. After the Winnipeg Jets miss a shot on goal, the puck goes soaring toward the blue line where the Bruins Shawn Thornton picks it up for a breakaway.

Thornton is known more for his penalty minutes than his goal scoring so it might have been better off if the Jets defense had just let him go. Instead, Thornton gets bugged enough that he can’t get a shot off and the ref calls for a penalty shot.

Given the extra chance, Shawn Thornton scores with a sick move on a shorthanded penalty shot against Ondrej Pavelec, his first career penalty shot attempt.