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Carolina Hurricanes RW Patrick Dwyer Shoots, Scores … Into Wrong Net (Video)

By Phil Watson

Feb 25, 2014; Buffalo, NY, USA; Carolina Hurricanes right wing Patrick Dwyer (39) against the Buffalo Sabres at First Niagara Center. Mandatory Credit: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 25, 2014; Buffalo, NY, USA; Carolina Hurricanes right wing Patrick Dwyer (39) against the Buffalo Sabres at First Niagara Center. Mandatory Credit: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Carolina Hurricanes have missed the playoffs for five straight seasons. If they don’t stop scoring goals for their opponents, it could well end up being six.

Patrick Dwyer of the Carolina Hurricanes is not a goal scorer. That much is clear.

The 31-year-old right wing has only 37 goals in 352 NHL games.

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He got his first goal of the season Saturday night in Carolina’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center in D.C.

Sort of.

With the Capitals on a power play in the first period, Carolina goalie Anton Khudobin stopped an initial shot and a rebound bounced out in front. One Hurricane defender missed it and in came Dwyer, who looked for all the world as if he fired off one of the best snap shots of his career.

Right past his own goalie.

Whoops.

But it worked out well for Troy Brouwer, who was credited with his fifth goal of the season.

The overtime loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Hurricanes, who opened the season with eight straight losses.

And as for Dwyer, who has only been active for seven of the team’s first 13 games? Officially, his goal count remains at zero.

But we have video proof that he is, in fact, able to put the puck into a net.

Now he just needs to work on getting it into the correct one.

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