Kasparaitis ' made a hard hit on Eric Lindros in 1998 that knocked Lindros out of action for 18 games, and he scored a game seven overtime goal vs. Buffalo in 2001.

Kasparaitis has played for the New York Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins, Colorado Avalanche and New York Rangers.

In his first full season with Colorado he played 57 games before he was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 19, 2002 with Ville Nieminen for Darius Kasparaitis.

One of Fedorov's goals came in the round robin of the tournament in the second period against Canada in Vancouver on a breakaway pass off the boards from defensemen Darius Kasparaitis, where he sprinted to the puck, and shot it over the blocker of goalie Curtis Joseph to tie the game.

After they divorced, Kasparaitis got engaged to a Swedish real estate agent named Ingela, they broke up after 3 years.

He and Clarke feuded in the media, with Clarke questioning his toughness ; Lindros spent many games on the injured reserve and suffered a series of concussions, the first in 1998 from a hit delivered by Pittsburgh's Darius Kasparaitis that sidelined him for 18 games.

Kasparaitis is known for his aggressive physical playing style and has led his teams in hits several times, including his rookie season, in 1992 – 93 NHL season with the New York Islanders.

Kasparaitis eventually wound up with the New York Rangers.

With these additions and a talented core of players such as Derek King, Ray Ferraro and Patrick Flatley, along with incoming Soviet-bloc players Vladimir Malakhov and Darius Kasparaitis, the Islanders had a new foundation in the early ' 90s.

The stars of the Stanley Cup years were followed by the likes of forwards Alexei Kovalev, Martin Straka, Aleksey Morozov, Robert Lang and Petr Nedved, and defensemen Sergei Zubov, Darius Kasparaitis and Kevin Hatcher.

Two NHL players – Darius Kasparaitis and Dainius Zubrus – were born in the town.

Darius Kasparaitis (; born October 16, 1972 ) is a retired professional ice hockey defenseman.

Kasparaitis left Lithuania for Russia at age 14 after training with Aleksey Nikiforov to play ice hockey at a higher level.

Kasparaitis played his first game for Dynamo Moscow, one of the premier teams in the Soviet Union, at the age of 16 during the 1988 – 89 season, and won the Soviet League championship with them in 1992.

Because the Lithuanian ice hockey team was relatively weak and hadn't ever played in major competitions, Kasparaitis chose to represent Russia in official events.

In December 2005, Kasparaitis was chosen to represent Russia in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

At the start of the 2006 – 07 season, Kasparaitis was replaced as an alternate captain with the Rangers by newly acquired Brendan Shanahan.

Kasparaitis was once again waived by the Rangers prior to the 2007 – 08 season.

On November 3, 2007, the Rangers announced that Kasparaitis had been loaned to SKA St. Petersburg of the then-Russian Superleague ( RSL ), now the KHL.

Even though Kasparaitis had departed the league after the 2007 season he left an impression with Ranger fans with the team salute that he created.

After every Rangers home win, Kasparaitis would direct the players to center ice and have the whole team follow in saluting the fans by raising their sticks in the air before departing the ice.

Kasparaitis continued to play for SKA Saint Petersburg in the 2008 – 09 season.

Kasparaitis is now a naturalized American citizen.

He scored in overtime for Quebec in Game 5 of their 1982 opening round best-of-five series vs. the Montreal Canadiens, and in 1988 scoring against Ron Hextall on a breakaway in overtime for Washington in Game 7 of their opening round best-of-7 series vs. the Philadelphia Flyers, making Hunter the first player in NHL history to score two overtime series-clinching goals in the playoffs.

Brett Hull of the Dallas Stars scored the series-clinching goal against the Buffalo Sabres.

The postseason proved that Gelinas could perform in the clutch, as he scored the series-clinching goal in each of the playoff series leading to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Gelinas is almost unique in NHL history, having scored three playoff series-clinching goals in the same year ( the only other player to do so was Ken Linseman ), two of them in overtime.

In fact, had a very close call in the third period of Game Six in the Finals not been disallowed by the referee, Gelinas might have scored all four series-clinching goals that year.

In the Stanley Cup Semifinals in 1971, when the Blackhawks scored a series-clinching empty-net goal in Game 7 against the New York Rangers, CBS announcer Dan Kelly reported, " I can feel our broadcast booth shaking!

En route to the Eastern Conference championship, Bellows scored the series-clinching overtime goal in the first round in Game 6 against the Boston Bruins.

He also scored the series-clinching goal in overtime in the first round of the 1974 Stanley Cup playoffs against the Atlanta Flames.

When Hull scored his series-clinching goal in triple overtime of game six his foot was in the crease but the puck was not.

Following his return the lineup, he scored the series-clinching goal in game five, a 2-1 win, to advance the Oilers into the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals.

Against the first-seeded Detroit Red Wings, Pisani scored two third period goals ( his fourth and fifth of the series ) in game six, series-clinching 4-2 victory.

England drew the opening game of the tournament 0 – 0 with Uruguay, and Charlton scored the first goal in the 2 – 0 win over Mexico.

Weeks later he scored his 45th England goal in a friendly against Sweden, breaking the record of 44 set the previous year by Jimmy Greaves.

Analogous to soccer, a goal cannot be scored from a stroke-in or goal throw, and unlike soccer, a goal cannot be scored directly from a stroke-off or corner stroke.

In contrast to soccer, however, all free strokes are “ direct ” and allow a goal to be scored without another player touching the ball.

If both extra periods are played without a scored goal, a penalty shootout will settle the game.

Charlton's Bert Turner scored an own goal in the eightieth minute before equalising for the Addicks a minute later to take them into extra time, but they conceded three further goals in the extra period.

; Safety: Scored when the ball becomes dead in the possession of a team in its own goal area, or when the ball touches or crosses the dead-line, or side-line-in-goal and touches the ground, a player, or some object beyond these lines as a result of the team scored against making a play.

Zetterberg scored the winning goal in the decisive Game 6, and was also named the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs.

Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half ( a kick-off ), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line ( called a drop-out ) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into the in-goal area, and to score a drop goal ( sometimes called a field goal ) in open play, which is worth three points.

Prior to this, the goal line and end line were the same, and players scored a touchdown by leaving the field of play through that line.

However after winning the trophy, where Hagi scored the only goal of the game, Steaua did not want to release him back to Sportul Studențesc and retained him.

Hagi scored three times in the tournament, including a memorable goal in their 3 – 2 surprise defeat of South American powerhouse and previous runners-up Argentina.

Hurst then scored his hat-trick goal and the game was over.

Others feel this is contentious, as he scored a disputed goal.

It wasn't until the celebratory banquet that evening that Hurst realised he had scored a hat-trick, assuming that the final whistle had been blown before he'd struck the ball into the net for his third goal.

He scored the only goal of England's opening game against Romania as England progressed to the quarter finals, where once again they faced West Germany.

He officially joined Nagoya Grampus Eight after playing his final game for Spurs on 2 May 1992, when he scored the consolation goal in a 3 – 1 defeat by Manchester United on the last day of the season.

He did score for England in the World Cup quarter-final against Argentina, but the game ended in defeat as Diego Maradona scored twice for the opposition ( the first goal being the " Hand of God " handball ) and England went out of the competition.

To mention a few of the memorable milestones on the road to the scudetto: a decisive win against Juventus ( 2 – 0 ), with a goal scored by Elkjær after having lost a boot in a tackle just outside the box, set the stage early in the championship ; an away win over Udinese ( 5 – 3 ) ended any speculation that the team was losing energy at the midway point ; three straight wins ( including a hard fought 1 – 0 victory against a strong AS Roma side ) served notice that the team had kept its polish and focus intact during their rival's final surge ; and a 1 – 1 draw in Bergamo against Atalanta secured the title with a game in hand.