You can’t predict knuckle-pucks. Flames’ goaltender Brian Elliott found that out first hand as the Canucks’ first shot on goal, from center ice no less, found the back of the net.
Vancouver Canucks score a knuckle-puck goal from center ice on their first shot of the game
Poor Brian Elliott ...
On what seemed to be a routine shot from the neutral zone from Alex Edler, the puck took a nose-dive and slipped past Elliott’s glove hand.
A hard one to swallow for Elliott for sure, but it’s not the first time long pucks have eluded netminders. And it certainly won’t be the last.
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