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Ottawa Senators center Shane Pinto began the first full week of 2025 with a classic.
The Long Island native was ready to go at the Senators’ Jan. 6 practice but forgot to look below both his skates and stepped on the ice with one skate guard still attached.
“I thought it was a puck was under my foot so I just whipped it, and then I took a tumble,” Pinto told reporters on Monday. “It was a good one. I’m alright. Didn’t feel good, but the boys got a laugh out of it so that’s all that matters.”
Just like any other hilarious blooper that has gone viral, the internet got a good giggle out of it, too.
With the history of hockey on the internet, there are many more funny moments on the blooper reel. Let’s look at five more embarrassingly funny hockey moments the internet has to offer, starting with another recent viral video.
1. Dropped Call
It’s a problem that can only happen in the 21st century.
A KHL player went onto the ice to start his shift when his cell phone fell off his equipment onto the ice.
Ak Bars Kazan forward Nikita Dynyak chased a player from Avangard Omsk when the comedic incident happened and went viral on social media.
An official picked up the phone and brought it back to the Ak Bars Kazan bench, asked players whose phone it was. Dynyak acknowledged ownership of the phone and took it back.
Avangard Omsk coach Guy Boucher reportedly tried to take advantage of the situation and advocated an illegal equipment penalty, but the officials decided otherwise.
After the game, Dynyak said he put his phone on the shelf behind him, it must have fallen into his equipment, but he didn’t feel anything.
We can only hope Dynyak has a warranty on the phone.
2. Brad Marchand’s Shootout Decider
On Jan. 13, 2020, the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins had a high-scoring regular-season clash. Every time the Bruins tried to build a lead, the Flyers continued to chase.
Both teams were tied 5-5 after regulation and overtime, which left a shootout to decide the winner.
The first four shooters for each team missed to begin the shootout, but the Flyers’ Travis Konecny finally scored in the fifth round for the Flyers. That meant Brad Marchand had to score to keep the game alive.
The Stanley Cup champion charged toward the resting puck like a man on a mission, but he barely nipped it a few inches forward as he skated into the offensive zone.
After officials briefly convened, it was declared a shootout attempt, as Marchand made contact with the puck. Just like that, the game was over, and the Flyers won.
Well, that was rather anticlimactic.
3. Condor Runs The Show
During a Bakersfield Condors home game in 2013, when they were still in the ECHL, the organization brought out a real-life condor accompanied by a bird trainer on center ice during the American national anthem.
Things started well, but then the condor, named Queen Victoria, started to flap its wings frantically on the trainer’s shoulder before falling to the ice. Limited by her claws, Queen Victoria slipped along the ice to make a quick getaway, much to the fans’ amusement.
The trainer caught up with the condor, but on the way back toward the carpet on center ice, the trainer slipped and fell, giving Queen Victoria a second attempt at a great escape.
This time, she got all the way to the boards by Condors’ bench, and as the team’s players and staff tried to get away from the large bird, Queen Victoria jumped up on the boards and then on the bench itself.
While everyone else seemed to find the moment hilarious, the same might not be said for the bird trainer as he chased the bird away from the ice through the home dressing room.
He might as well have taken a shower while he was there to cool down.
4. Dion Phaneuf
During a Flames/Canucks game on Nov 5. 2005, a young Dion Phaneuf tried to make an early impact in his career but fell flat on his back.
With Calgary already leading 1-0 in the third period, the Flames’ Phaneuf tried to challenge the relatively experienced Jarkko Ruutu to a fight after getting hit into the boards by the Finland native.
As expected, Phaneuf flung his gloves and stick to show Ruutu it was on. But, as Phaneuf backed up, his legs seemed to get caught in Ruutu’s stick, and the rookie dropped to the ice while Ruutu skated to his bench. Phaneuf could only humbly get up and pick up his gear, pretending nobody had seen the incident.
However, the officials did see it (as did the entire internet), and to add insult to injury, Phaneuf and the Flames were given a two-minute minor for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Double ouch.
5. Patrik Stefan Blew It
Four days into 2007, Dallas forward and 1999 No. 1 overall pick, Patrik Stefan, probably wished for a redo to the New Year.
With the Stars leading the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 late in the final minute of the game, the Czech took the puck away from Edmonton defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron and looked poised to put in an easy empty-netter.
However, instead of burying the puck in the back of the net, Stefan tried to backhand the puck into the goal. The biscuit bounced over his stick and Stefan fell to the ice.
Oilers center Jarret Stoll grabbed the loose puck and quickly skated the other direction, and Ales Hemsky dramatically scored to tie the game with just two seconds left in regulation.
The Stars would save face by winning the game in a shootout, but whenever people recall Stefan’s NHL career, this fail is the first thing they remember.
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