With the NHL playoffs looming Junior hockey playoffs have begun in the Canadian Hockey League.
In the Ontario Hockey League in a Eastern Conference match up between the Barrie Colts and Hamilton Bulldogs with the series tied 2-2 and the Colts leading 3-1 late in the 3rd Colts goaltender Anson Thornton would try for the empty net goal.
Not only did Thornton attempt to score on the empty net he did indeed score his first goal in a night the young man won't ever forget.