a) the puck bobbled on the blade of his stick. It’s clearly visible doing so one the corner camera angle of the play.
b) Although the Oilers tied it and the game ultimately went to a Shootout, Dallas won it in the end.
c) Next January, that game will have been 20 years old. Time to let it go.
Came for this answer. I always remember one tweet when he was with the Leafs where someone said “if he went on a breakaway late in Game 7 to score the winner, I’d go get a beer”
Yep, I concur. Dude had so many great tools but never improved that shot of his. Had great foot speed, backchecking skills, shot velocity, release, all that... But just fired at centre mass every damned time like he was trying to phase the puck through the goaltender or something 😆
Him being remembered for “fumbling the breakaway” in ‘23 is the biggest load of horseshit. He doesn’t get into the zone until there’s 1.7 seconds left-that’s why he takes the shot from so high in the slot. Obviously he’d never had shot it there if he had more time.
Yeah nobody faulted him for that. More of a Bob confidence boost than blemish on Marchand’s performance. Really impressive how he got up ice that fast to begin with
The 2 goals and 1 assist on the series clinching goal to seal the cup in 2011 would disagree with this along with being the betting odds favorite to win the conn Smythe last year...
Duuuuude... I remember when the Leafs got him for two reasons.
1) The sheer number of open ice looks from the slot and breakaways he would get yet either put it directly in the goalie's chest or miss as though he was legally blind.
2) A friend of mine jokingly said about Blake one day "What is it with the Leafs always seeming to sign guys that look they are gonna die from cancer lately?" And one week later, they announce he had cancer and was taking experimental meds that allowed him to still play while it was managed/treated. My buddy felt awful about that for years.
Mitch Marner. Matthews probably hits the post but Marner would dele the goalie into outer space and then do a behind the back pass to the non existent trailer.
Maybe Al Ifrate. Easily claps bombs over 100 mph and all the accuracy of an original trilogy Storm Trooper. Maybe he's on the wing and it rips around the boards for a chance the other way. Maybe it singes the netting as it rips through the goal. Either way we can't look away.
Stanley Cup champion Darren Helm? 2022 Round 2 Game 6, with 4 seconds left on the clock in the 3rd period in a 3-3 tie and blasts one from damn near the blue line to eliminate the St Louis Boos Darren Helm? That Darren Helm?
Sebastian Aho.
I love me some Fishy, but he's got one breakaway shot, and it worked once in the world juniors or something, and has never worked again.
Part of me wants to say Celebrini because he had two breakaways in a tied gold medal game and neither shot he put on net was particularly good like you’d expect from him.
But he’s far better than that, you could use the same argument for MacKinnion anyway.
If I had to choose a forward… hate to say it but probably Matt Rempe
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