Here Are The Top 5 Goals From The NHL Last Night (10/24/18)
There was really only one game on the schedule last night that had some actual appeal to it and that was Toronto vs Winnipeg. Auston Matthews vs Patrik Laine. A couple of young, up and coming teams in Canadian markets. But they play again on Saturday and then that’s it for the rest of the season unless they both find themselves in the Stanley Cup Final. Sooooo as far as the NHL schedule goes for last night, it wasn’t necessarily a big night. But there were still some nice goals so let’s just get right to the highlights, shall we?
5. BoHo With The Two-for-One Special
Remember the Vegas Flu that everybody kept talking about last year? Well I guess Bo Horvat got vaccinated because our guy put 2 past Flower in the same shift, just 63 ticks away from one another. First one was a decent tip but the 2nd one was smooth as butter. Snags that puck out of the air, doesn’t miss a single stride, comes down and makes Marc-Andre Fleury think he has a hole in his glove. Not a bad shift while all the dads are in attendance. Bet the dads were getting in one last night. Boys grab a shootout win in Vegas? Yeah, there were definitely some post-game celebrations after that one.
P.S. – Like I said, it wasn’t a great night in the NHL last night. So I’m counting those goals as 5 and 4. Sorry. Sue me.
3. The Islanders And Their Loyal Teammates Put On A Passing Clinic
This right here is what a team looks like when everybody is on the same page. This is what a team looks like when everybody has fully bought in. This is what a team looks like when their leader isn’t focused on abandoning the team to play for Toronto. Leddy to Bailey to Lee to Barzal to Eberle to the back of the net. All 5 guys touching the puck on that play and it’s a thing of beauty. Clinic puck movement there on the powerplay. I bet Tavares wishes he had some guys on his team who could move the puck like that right now. But we’ll have more on that later….
2. In Soviet Russia, Face Score Goal
Like I said already–I’m sorry that there weren’t 5 nasty goals in the NHL last night. But I made a promise to all you boys and girls back home that I’d keep this blog going about as daily as possible. So we just have to outsource every now and then. This time we’re taking a trip to mother Russia where taking a shot to the face is only like the 6th worst thing that could possibly happen to you in a KHL game.
Linus Omark is such a sick fuck and such a wizard that it wouldn’t shock me to hear that he planned this. Either way, this is a great example of how good things happen if you just get pucks on net and have guys crashing down for a rebound. Off a skate, off a stick, off the goalie’s blocker and then off the dome in the back of the net. They don’t ask how, they ask how many. And this counts for just as much of a goal as any other that has ever been scored.
1. One Simply Cannot Play Defense Against The Toronto Maple Leafs
Ahhhh shit. Okay. So THAT’S why John Tavares decided to go to Toronto. Because he had needed a top level winger to play with his entire career in New York but they just never got him one. Now he gets to play in his hometown with Mitch Marner on his line and this is the type of shit that happens.
Mitch Marner is generously listed at 6’0″ 175 lbs. There’s no shot in hell he actually weighs 175 but we’ll let him keep that weight just for the hell of it. Dustin Byfuglien is listed at 6’5″ 260 lbs. I’m thinking that Byfuglien realistically has 100 lbs on Marner. But Marner dances Dusty Buff’s face off right here, clowns him between the legs, and then he was clearly looking to hit Johnny T on the back door and just lucked out that Hellebuyck kicked that puck right to 91’s tape. Pretty goal there from a father and his son.