BOSTON – Hockey media was full of excited chatter, yesterday, after Hurricanes forward Andrei Svechnikov did the unthinkable and scored the rare lacrosse-style goal, a feat that has only been accomplished ten billion previous times.
The famed, highly-skilled, play requires a player, when positioned behind the opposing net, to lift the puck on his skate blade, and swing it around into the top corner, behind the unsuspecting goalie. The first instance of the play is recognised to have occurred in 1996, when Mike Legg scored such a goal as a member of the University of Michigan. “The goal is truly spectacular,” explains Hockey historian Terry Overman, “When I first saw a college player who would go on to be a journeyman in a third-tier professional league do it, I thought ‘no one is ever going to do that, again’ and, 28-years-later, it’s only been done a handful of billions of times, since!”.
For his part, Svechnikov described his emotions about the play to the excited reporters gathered at his locker. “When I found myself behind the net I thought ‘Can I actually do this?!’ but I did! I couldn’t believe it, I had never done anything like this before! Besides the all other times I had done it before, of course”.
“I was blown away!” gushed Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour. “Can you believe he actually pulled that off? I was floored when Trevor Zegras did it, and I’m floored, now. That’s the sort of skill you can only find in second and third-line NHL players, or about a hundred times a game by every AAA ten-year-old in the country”.
At press time, John Tortorella was pissed.
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