Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray barely moved on Justin Braun's first-period goal in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final against the San Jose Sharks, so what happened next was inevitable.
Thanks to the fine work of SB Nation video editor @Nick_Pants, Murray fell victim to the classic "controller disconnected" gag.
Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo Sports implied shortly after that most older video games featured CPU-controlled goalies - thereby killing the joke - but online team play allows for user-controlled netminders, so, in our opinion, the gag still works.
Clearly, no player is immune, as both Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin have earned their own "controller disconnected" GIFs in the past.
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