Picture a man, battered and beaten. He has spent the third period of a National Hockey League contest as the silhouetted man in an impressive round of target practice from the locked and loaded Pittsburgh Penguins, filling him full of rubber puck shot in the last dozen minutes. His ragged breathing and soaked sweater betray his efforts to push the game to extra time. He finally nears the end of the period and has warded off the last volley from the Penguins battery…

…only to have his own rookie defenseman jam the puck behind him for the game-winning goal with 28 seconds left. Tough day, Cristobal Huet.
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