It wasn’t just the move. Lots of players have that in their bag of tricks, especially when practicing shootouts. It was the smoothness of it, and how he managed to avoid the defenders’ stick traffic. Plus it was a nice distance away.
Look at the replay from above. He narrowly missed the defense’s sticks. Coulda been pure luck, but it did look pretty sharp. I gotta hand it to him.
- Hesh_
Don't get me wrong, great goal. Yeah, lots of guys can do that, but with a bit of traffic, and from a distance, picking the corner like that is a beaut. i'm not saying it's not. But we're not even 10 games into the season, claiming goal of the year this early is a bit silly. And to be goal of the year, I expect it'll take something we haven't seen before.
And my comment on Roenick, I wasn't saying he's an idiot for saying that. I was just saying he is an idiot, more as a general comment about Roenick. he was an idiot long before his comments on this goal.