“Unbelievable Twist: How Alexander Ovechkin’s Miracle Goal Defied All Odds and Captivated Fans Worldwide”
About that time, Ovechkin skated by, and Pang saw Gretzky, arms folded, look at Ovechkin and nod. “It was kind of one of those nods of, ‘That was darn good,’” Pang recalls, “like, ‘That was something else.’”
“I had two thoughts,” Gretzky would later say. “‘How can five guys on the ice not stop a guy on his knees with a rolling puck?’ And then, ‘S***, my record could be in trouble.’”
Pang interviewed Ovechkin on the bench afterward, and remembers the young Russian superstar-to-be couldn’t quite believe what he’d just done either. “I remember saying Wayne Gretzky watched you, and I think he said, ‘That’s really exciting, Wayne Gretzky, great player,’ but that was really about it,” Pang recalls. “It was hard to understand it, but the enthusiasm was genuine and it was a great moment for hockey for sure.”
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