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Watch: Devils goalie gives up odd goal on unlucky bounce
Jake Allen. Ed Mulholland-Imagn Images

Watch: Devils goalie gives up odd goal on unlucky bounce

Everything went right for the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night in their 8-5 win against the New Jersey Devils.

Conversely, everything went wrong for the Devils.

Those two developments intersected in the third period when Lightning defenseman Janis Moser scored a shorthanded goal to give his team an 8-4 lead.

This was not your typical shorthanded goal, however.

It came from the complete opposite side of the ice as Moser took the puck off of a face-off win and simply cleared it off the glass, attempting to send it the length of the ice.

It was at that point that he received an incredible good luck bounce.

As Devils goalie Jake Allen left the net in anticipation of playing the puck off the glass, it took a bizarre bounce and ended up sliding directly into the vacated net. 

Have a look.

Sometimes it is just not your night. Allen did not do anything wrong here, making a play that every goalie in the NHL routinely does to play a clearing attempt. It was just a bad break at the worst possible time.

Adam Gretz

Adam Gretz is a freelance writer based in Pittsburgh. He covers the NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA. Baseball is his favorite sport -- he is nearly halfway through his goal of seeing a game in every MLB ballpark. Catch him on Twitter @AGretz

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