Word: welching
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Guarding the goalmouth against the streaking Alexei Kovalev, Welch tapped at the puck in the crease and slipped it past his own keeper, rather than out to the corner boards he’d been eyeing...
...star in his first season with Pittsburgh’s top minor league franchise, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Welch was tapped to replace suspended NHL defenseman Eric Cairns for three games in late March. And wouldn’t you know, Welch’s own-goal made SportsCenter’s “Not Top 10”—in fact, it was the No. 1 blunder...
...happens,” Welch laughed in retrospect. “Well, maybe not too often—I guess I was pretty antsy...
Less than two minutes of game-time later—the goal credited to Kovalev came 19:40 into the second period—Welch scored for his own team, putting to rest any concerns that such a public gaffe might shake his confidence...
...though his objective is to stay with the parent club for good, Welch admitted that “to get called up still fulfilled a life-long dream...