“Unbelievable Twist: How Alexander Ovechkin’s Miracle Goal Defied All Odds and Captivated Fans Worldwide”
“He falls, I’m trying to push, push, push, push, and I think he’s run out of room,” Boucher recalls. “And somehow on his back he’s able to whack the puck … ”
Still sliding, Ovechkin reached overhead and, with a flick of his wrist, popped the puck into a keyhole of space. “Probably had six inches to put it between the angle of my stick and the inside of the post,” Boucher says.
“The one thing that people don’t realize with goaltending is that (goalies) always think they can stop it,” Pang says. “We think that we can get our stick up and knock it out of mid-air. We think that we can get a glove up as we’re rolling over and stop it. So that’s what made that one most amazing, because I don’t think anybody thought that there was a play to stop.”
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