Andrei Svechnikov will call the current season of the National Hockey League (NHL) one of the most difficult in his bright career. And this is not surprising if you remember what a serious injury and serious surgery the Russian forward of the Carolina Hurricanes suffered a year ago. In the final regular season, Svech did not score as much as was expected of him. Especially against the backdrop of two goalless streaks of 11 and 10 matches, respectively. This issue was raised for discussion, including by North American journalists from The Athletic. In their material, they also emphasized that Andrei leaves too often.
“Probably the time has come for some concern about Svechnikov,” the authors of the publication noted in their material with such an interesting proposal.
And Svechnikov himself is with this In general, I didn’t argue. There was no point. For him, the new season has become a year of overcoming difficulties, which the Russian copes with quite successfully.
After a recent match with the Columbus Blue Jackets, in which Andrei scored a goal, he said that this puck would give him confidence for the future. Svechnikov demonstrated a positive effect in the next game. Today, Carolina beat the visiting Boston Bruins and retained its credentials for the President's Cup. However, the main event of the game day was not the victory of the Hurricanes, but Svechnikov’s goal.
He performed it in lacrosse style. Bonus: lacrosse phantom. Not everyone even saw that the puck ended up in the net after Svechnikov’s feint. She flew back out of the gate so quickly that the game continued for some time until the judges took a break to watch a video replay of the episode.
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"Once behind the goal, I always consider the option of performing this feint. “I would like to celebrate this goal more fun, but no one even realized that there was a goal at all,” Andrey said after the game.
Throughout the NHL, Svechnikov, thanks to his lacrosse goal, became a thorn in the side of some, and a revolutionary for others. Many Americans (especially the old school) consider such tricks unacceptable in professional hockey. The rest happily supported the trend set by the Russian forward, and even come up with various options for continuing the attack with this feint. One way or another, in North America the question was again raised for discussion that the lacrosse goal, which the Americans call the Michigan goal, in the NHL should be named after the Russian.
It was Andrei Svechnikov who became the author of the first lacrosse goal in the entire history of the NHL . On October 30, 2019, the Russian forward of Carolina scored a goal against the Calgary Flames. Ogonki goalkeeper David Rittich did not even immediately understand what had happened and why Svech was celebrating the goal.
Just a month and a half after that incident, Andrey repeated his trick. And again he did it successfully. Then, Winnipeg Jets goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck fell victim to Svechnikov’s cunning and technique. Seeing how the Russian threw the puck behind his scruff, the American goalie did not hide his indignation.
Thanks to Andrey, lacrosse goals are now an integral part of the game in the NHL. Such tricks that decorate hockey are becoming increasingly popular. After Svechnikov, Filip Forsberg, Trevor Zegras and even Connor Bedard scored in a similar way.
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