And back to Hockey

How quick we forget...

Yes, i know different times and all that but when i heard about this 'amazing' goal by St. Louis Blues rookie Victor Tarantino (somethin' like that) with a certain Vancouver sportscaster already calling it in contention for the move of the year and who, according to said sportscaster, deked a Detroit player so badly on his second goal the Red Wing wound up sitting in the front row nursing his broken ego and a bucket of popcorn watching this young star.  Trying to jump-start my enthusiasm for the Return of the Ice Age 3, I had to witness this amazing gift to goal highlights myself.

And this is what i saw;

Yeah, okay...not exactly the second coming of Fabian Brunnstromm but I seriously don't think those goals were that amazing.  Maybe it was because it was opening night of a long delayed season, maybe because it was the Lidstrom-less Detroit Red Wings getting spanked or maybe just because something doesn't sound right when you have an adjective like 'amazing' describing anyone on the St. Louis Blues.


Or maybe because this is something like what i expected (ignore JR for the moment);

I remember seeing this game and in particular this goal.  It was incredible.  And amazing.  This was the loathed Edmonton Oilers in their fading prime but still a contender.  Chicago was in the midst of that whole 40 years without a cup thing.  I watched because i think Denis Savard was the second cousin to my cousin, whatever that means.  Well, when you are a teenager playing hockey, that practically meant Savard was family.  Yet, even so I did not expect to see anything like this goal.

So to compare;
the St. Louis Blue new kid on the block deked out Kyle "not-lidstrom" Quincey and then got the puck past Jimmy Howard twice, once on a breakaway where his 'nice move' consisted of kicking up his leg.

Denis Savard deked out Glenn Anderson, Mark Messier, Esa Tikkanen, Kevin Lowe and then Grant Fuhr.  At this time those four guys had over a dozen Stanley Cup rings between them while Savard had none.

There was a fifth Oiler on the ice somewhere eating popcorn but wisely decided to avoid being detected by Savard who would have made a special detour just to embarrass that guy as well.  I think it's #19 (Dave Hunter?).
And oh yeah, Savard did this short-handed.

Now that's a goal to remember.