Wacky goals highlight wild Wednesday in West

Sergei Bobrovsky -- and everyone else on the ice -- has no clue that the sky-shot puck is lofting behind him and about to trickle into the net.

There were as many weird goals on Wednesday night as there were games on the NHL schedule: four.

Highlighted by an atrocious outing by the Detroit Red Wings’ newly stinkin’ rich goaltender, Jimmy Howard, here are the wild — and wildly soft — goals scored in the Western Conference games.

  • The puck gets caught in a wandering Jimmy Howard’s skates and he obliviously puts it in his own net, giving The Calgary Flames’ Steve Begin one of two easy goals on the night. Begin had previously caught Howard misplaying the puck behind his goal and scored a gimme into a vacant cage:

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  • Johan Franzen beats Miikka Kiprusoff on an innocent-looking backhanded dump-in from centre ice:

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  • And a personal favourite. From close range, Anaheim’s David Steckel bats the puck off a defender’s stick and it flies skyward. No one knows where it is. It lofts over Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, lands in the crease and trickles over the line:

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