The First Ever

As you know, this blog stops for goalie goals no matter what else is going on. Of course, if there's some once-in-a-lifetime historical moment, I might push the goalie goal story to the next day, but the young man to the left created a once-in-a-lifetime moment with his goal tonight. That young tendy is Riley Brown from Winnipeg who is currently stopping pucks for the Prairie Hockey Academy's U17 Blue team, and they were at home to play the Notre Dame Hounds this evening in an otherwise non-descript, midweek CSSHL game. Normally, I'd never write about CSSHL games at the U17 boys' prep level because there are so many teams, but Riley Brown is now part of CSSHL history thanks to his efforts tonight against Notre Dame.

If you clicked on the picture, you likely already know why Riley's appearing on HBIC. If you didn't, here's the video of why Riley is being talked about tonight by this writer because he did something special!

Brown's goal was scored at 18:15 of the third period with Prairie Hockey Academy on the power-play to push the score to 6-3 in favour of Prairie Hockey over Notre Dame! Brown would also record the win after stopping 23 shots in the 6-3 final, but it would be the goal that stood out as Riley Brown becomes the first goaltender in CSSHL history to score a goal!

Brown improved to 4-3-1 tonight with the win, but he's officially the highest-scoring goal-scoring goalie in league history at this moment. He's won his last four games after starting the season 0-3-1, so he's picked his game up to sit with a 3.55 GAA and an .887 save percentage. He can also say he contributed in one of those wins by scoring an insurance goal, so that's pretty awesome.

Enjoy this moment, Riley, as you're the first goalie in league history to record a goal which will now be the measure that every other goalie tries to equal. Might there be more for Riley? Time will tell as there's still a lot of time left in this season and his career, but the first one put him in the record books which is pretty incredible. Great goal, Riley! Keep up the great work!

Until next time, keep your sticks on the ice!