Last night as the Seattle Kraken played the Montreal Canadiens, we witnessed not only a fantastic back and forth hockey game, but we witnessed Brandon Montour of the Seattle Kraken set a new NHL overtime record! It came off a set play at the opening face-off of over time where seeing how the Canadiens were lining up, the Kraken grouped up and came up with a fantastic play. This set play led to the overtime game winning goal being scored in just 4 seconds. Officially the fastest OT winning goal in NHL history. It also ties the fastest goal to start a period in NHL history. So in todays video, I break down face-offs in the NHL and how the Kraken just came up with a whole new strategy.
Great video from Along the ice hockey on face-offs in OT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBuPitZPmj0
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And people were thinking Montour and Stephenson were some of the worst signings by the Kraken. 😂😂
no thats just skill the linesman was watching him to see if he cheated the same one that called the goal is skating back with him when he starts his trot. so if ya ask me the refs are prolly thinking what Im thinking- thats just a good play done well.
It'll be broken, eventually. There'll be a draw-to-snapshot goal, eventually. Unlikely? Yes. But it'll happen. Happens in the o-zone often-enough.
I think that was a cheazy play but in the rules
How to take yourself out of the Calder convo 101.
Hutson did not mark his guy, Habs paid for it. That penalty on Savard was a weak call, too bad it was so late in the game. Kraken did not quit and won the game because they kept coming.
I think you may be right since the previous record was 6s and this was 2s less. Only six players were tied for that previous record. Last time anyone did it was Nylander in 2018. The others were: Sundin, Legwand, Ovechkin, Kempe and Athanasiou.
Will they ever start calling back, cheating on faceoffs, and re-drop the puck? I'm sure the technology can check them instantly.
Huston is a terrible dman, as much he offers on offense he's weak and gets push around because he's small. Should move him as a winger.
If anything that’s on the refs haha I think it was a sick goal
Thank you for another informative video!!
He just wanted to go home
Risky play too. If you blow the line right off the rip and either your center loses the faceoff straight up or he hits it in the wrong place, you've got a guy trapped.
This is definitely one of your best videos. You do an excellent job of beginning the video with how face offs work. And then the grand finale of the OT goal in four seconds.❤
Did the Canadiens center pull the puck back and Montour was in the right place to intercept it or did Stephenson intentionally push the puck forward?
Hutson being butthurt is hilarious
This feels like people usually "abuse" the rule in a reasonable way where it's not enough of an advantage for people to really fight over the exact details…but someone pushed the rule too far and now well have to make it a proper rule.
Sore loser ass response by Hutson 😂. You got beat and it was fair game. Maybe this will wake him up to actually start playing the defence in DEFENCEmen
Good move caught a future star sleeping
Absolutely brilliant. Let them win the face off!!!
3 on the line is obviously not the right setup. So far I’ve seen most team play smart and start 2 on the line with the D man back.
Pretty easy to get around a guy if his stick is inside the face off circle and you're going to go around the outside of the face off circle.
Gives no time to get your stick back in front of him to slow him down.
I am a Habs fan, but that was a pretty smart sneaky move from the Kraken.
They saw what body position Hudson was in, and took advantage of it. It takes at least a second to get your stick back to the side where the player is, and by that time he was gone already. That was a pretty good heads-up play
Nice video. Have you worked things out with the NHL or are you doing this for free? I appreciate your videos and it helps me follow the NHL.
Great play acrually
When I coached OMHA we coaches were sometimes sent on courses. One course I took was titled “Generating Offence” and was taught by Dennis Maruk who played for Washington in the 80’s.
We spent 90 minutes just on faceoffs and his advice was “the best cheater wins”
When I took this back to my team parents were upset with me, but Maruk said a good faceoff man gets kicked out of the circle regularly because the guy playing closest to the edge of the rules generally will win the draw.
This is the way it has always been.
People waiting in line for another beer 🍺 or waiting for the 🚽 pisser…. 🔊🔊🔊 SCORESSSS 🔊🔊🔊 😮😑💀
Habs fan here, this pissed me off, I definitely accused of cheating him in the moment… after watching your video, what a creative play by the Kraken, lots of respect to them. no cheating here, everybody bends the rules all the time, good play.
No record is unbreakable.
Someone set it. Someone will break it.
The one exception may be Gretzky's Points/Assists. And that's only because that day and age is gone
lmao Hutson is so upset about it the salt in his voice "good play by him i guess" brother you got caught napping really bad
"Good play by him I guess"
Is the most whiny bitch response. You got got dude own it. It's not like he was 10' over the line. It was milliseconds at best. Solid play for a great goal
That's why I prefer to have a guy off of the line. For that exact reason. I know it rarely happens. But I'm paranoid about that play happening against my team. Because even if the guy doesn't get a clean break, he can still draw a penalty if the defender has to grab him to prevent a clean break.
Great play!
since nobody starts a period with a pulled goalie you actually have to skate to the goal and shoot – i'd say this was pretty near perfect – sprinting from the get go and a quick release… someone might shave off a few fractions of a second, but you can't get it much faster than this…
You could barely match that time on your PlayStation, rookie level. The perfect draw, pass and shot.
I’m a Habs fan. This was just genius. Eberle made the best play. He let Dvorak win the draw clean and just stood there knowing Montour (a D) was going to back off the circle and burn behind Hutson. Nothing illegal. Teams will learn never to line up three straight across in OT.
I don't think there was even a hint of anything wrong. Skates were clearly behind the redline when the puck hit the ice. Just perfect timing. Now to be fair, if he had jumped it a bit there's no replay and it's unlikely it would be called off, but in this instance even replay wouldn't have taken back the goal if that was an option.
Habs fan here, i was in the building, i think it was just a Perfectly timed play and they took advantage of it. faaaaaak
Go Kraken 🎉😊
.. umm .. there was no rule at all that was broken in this play.. why was this even in question?
Regular occurrence for the wingers to bump before the drop and this is exactly why, you see the play but you feel the opposition fighting you. You focus on the puck and you lose your man… well you’re hoping they broke a rule. Relying on anything other than your skills is really what he’s upset for, not for his sake but for the higher ups breathing down his neck now
Just as a note. There are no rules in the nhl rulebook for where you have to be lined up on the faceoff during center ice faceoffs as long as you are not “offsides” which would seem to imply ahead of the blue line thus this is completely legal and you could even cheat further up the ice if you wanted to
What do you think the Kraken player taking the face off did – did he lose on purpose or did he actually try and hit the puck forward instead of the usually take it back, was kind of hard to see but I think the latter? Nice vid!
If the league measured quickest acceleration, Montour has gotta be in the conversation. Fastest wagon burner in NHL history.
Damn right he cheated 0:01 stand up for your team
The only possible way to beat this is to win the draw and just fire from center ice and have some freak bounce that allows it to go past the goalie. Not impossible, but probably not happening in our lifetimes.