Anybody who watched "The Season", with O'Connor literally in tears on the coaches shoulder outside the locker room, knows how ludicrous this theory is. When you watch the replay, it's obvious that O'Connor thought for a split second that he didn't have the puck in his glove (he briefly looks over his shoulder, then the puck drops out of his glove. Then he realizes he had it all along and drops to the ice, and it takes a hard luck bounce into the net). And like Wodon says in his article, is this really how you would do something like this? There was plenty of time left in the game, much easier to just freeze when screened, letting a puck off a real shot go in. O'Connor had a shaky tournament, with a bad goal against UMD from the point, and the play against UND where the puck ended up in front of the empty net.
