Face the music, Corey Perry. After Perry pile-drived Quinn Hughes into the ice on Thursday night, you figured there’d be some sort of response from Hughes’ Vancouver Canucks teammates. There sort of was.
And during the third period of Tuesday's game between the Edmonton Oilers and Washington Capitals that's exactly what happened. A plate of cheese-covered tortillas showed up on the ice just as Corey Perry blasted a one-timer that found the back of the net.
Corey Perry took down Quinn Hughes in a scrum as frustration boiled over between the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks during Thursday's matchup.
A battle between two of the NHL’s best teams Tuesday night took a bizarre turn when the Edmonton Oilers benefitted from a fan throwing their cheesy nachos onto the ice, scoring a goal on distracted Washington Capitals goalie Logan Thompson,
During last night's Oilers-Capitals game, Edmonton managed to score a very bizarre goal with the help of something totally unexpected laying on the ice.
A cheesy interruption during the Capitals game in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday night almost threatened Washington's win streak, which improved to five straight after a win over the Oilers.
The Oilers may have come up just short against the Capitals on Tuesday night, but they scored one of the strangest goals of the season.
Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson was a bit preoccupied during a play in which Edmonton Oilers forward Corey Perry scored a goal in Tuesday's game.  At the 4:50 mark of the second period,
Leon Draisaitl continued his MVP-type season with a three-point game. Zach Hyman buried two and could have had four. Calvin Pickard was strong early. And Corey Perry was in full-worm form with a highly effective, agitating display.
Somehow, this soon-to-be 40-year-old, who had one assist and one shot on goal, was on everyone’s lips post-game on a night when Zach Hyman scored twice, Leon Draisaitl had three points, and too many Canucks to name shorted their employer in a game the Oilers led 5-0 at the 32-minute mark.
Leon Draisaitl & Zach Hyman recorded three points apiece on Thursday night as the Oilers earned retribution against the Canucks with a 6-2 victory over their Pacific Division rivals at Rogers Place