Music: {allcanada} Burrows' OT goal just misses record

Saturday, June 4, 2011

{allcanada} Burrows' OT goal just misses record

Alexandre Burrows' game-winner in overtime on Saturday was fast -- but not quite fast enough to set a Stanley Cup record.

Burrows beat Boston goaltender Tim Thomas 11 seconds into OT to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 victory against Boston in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Arena. But his goal was two seconds behind the fastest goal ever scored in the playoffs.

Twenty-five years ago, Montreal's Brian Skrudland scored just nine seconds into OT in Calgary to give the Canadiens a 3-2 win in Game 2 of the Final. That's not only the fastest goal in the history of the Final, it's the fastest in playoff history -- Skrudland broke the mark of 11 seconds set in 1975 by the New York Islanders' J.P. Parise in the third and deciding game of their preliminary-round series against the Rangers.

Two players -- Chicago's Pit Martin in 1972 and the Hawks' Martin Havlat in 2009 -- scored 12 seconds into OT to win a playoff game.

Before Burrows scored, the second-fastest OT goal in a playoff game came on April 9, 1936, when Buzz Boll of Toronto scored 31 seconds into overtime to give the Maple Leafs a 4-3 win against Detroit.

All Playoff games
Seconds into OT	Date	Team	Opponent	Final score	Goal scorer
9	05/18/1986	MTL	at CGY	3-2	Brian Skrudland
11	04/11/1975	NYI	at NYR	4-3	J.P. Parise
11	06/04/2011	VAN	vs BOS	3-2	Alex Burrows
12	04/09/1972	CHI	at PIT	6-5	Pit Martin
12	04/16/2009	CHI	vs CGY	3-2	Martin Havlat

Stanley Cup Final
Seconds into OT	Date	Team	Opponent	Final score	Goal scorer
9	05/18/1986	MTL	at CGY	3-2	Brian Skrudland
11	06/04/2011	VAN	vs BOS	3-2	Alex Burrows
31	04/09/1936	TOR	vs DET	4-3	Buzz Boll
34	06/05/1993	MTL	at LA	4-3	John LeClair
39	06/02/2003	ANA	vs NJ	1-0	Steve Thomas