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Sun Oct 24 09:11pm EDT

Video: Watch Rangers' Del Zotto smash camera lens with shot

By Greg Wyshynski

We've seen players like Alex Ovechkin(notes) break the camera inside the goal on a shot; but breaking the robotic camera above the glass is a rare treat.

Consider yourselves treated, as New York Rangers defenseman Michael Del Zotto's(notes) shot went sailing up into the camera lens against the New Jersey Devils at MSG on Sunday night, shattering it on live TV:

If that's not the greatest argument for the proliferation of 3-D television, we don't know what is ...

[Related photo: Broken baseball bat smashes TV camera] 

There was a slight delay as glass was cleaned off the ice. The camera would make another appearance between periods on MSG, when it was presented to a TV crewmember as a birthday gift. No, we're not joking. Yes, that is much better than a gift card to Starbucks.

[Photos: Michael Del Zotto on the ice] 

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