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Avalanche’s Artturi Lehkonen Gets Credit For Goal As Puck Takes Wild Bounce



Watch as Artturi Lehkonen earns the Colorado Avalanche’s first goal of the playoffs in bizarre fashion, as the puck takes a bounce off his skate in mid-air and beats Dallas Stars goalie Jake Oettinger, with the goal being confirmed after review.

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39 Comments

  1. There can't be intent with a top-corner kick…

    Hell , this is the first top corner kick goal I've ever seen.

  2. I think what blows me away is even when you get a situation like this when it's clear as day it wasn't a kicking motion…..People still try to claim it was.

  3. You know these playoffs gonna' be great when it starts with one of the most beautiful soccer goals in history.

  4. It looks like it's going to be 8 loses in a row for Dallas. Goes to show you. When you suck going into the playoff. You suck in the playoff! Colorado in 4. SWEEP! Another highly talented Stars team bits the dust!

  5. It's a good goal as no reasonable person would consider that he intended to kick the goal into the net. The rules state no "distinct kicking motion" and that distinction is further explained as being deliberate.

  6. I’ve watched Dallas be awarded with a goal after a blatant kicking motion that went into a dislogged next count in the playoffs against Minnesota. If that was a goal, then this is easily a goal

  7. That has to be one of the luckiest goals in NHL history and the fact, that it went top shelf like that….lmao.

  8. Lucky? Yes. Impossible to recreate? Yes. Entirelly unintentional kick? Only the kicker will ever know. Do I think he scored it on purpose? No. Did he know exactly where that puck was and try to propel it towards the net? I think he did. But again, only one man will ever really know, haha. Fluke, glad it counted.
    Slow motion replay tends to ruin incidents like this, as the viewer can be lulled into a false sense of how fast things actually occurred.

  9. Old skool spanking tonight! Thats for that hearbreaker celly last year! Duchene really knows how to leave a foul taste in a mouth!

  10. You got to be kidding me by saying that was a kicking motion. He was leveling down and you’re telling me that Lehkonen knew where the puck was?

  11. Lehkonen is either the best soccer player in the world disguising himself as a great hockey player, or this is just an accident. Your judgment, and I know which I lean towards.

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