Shocking News: Blackhawks’ Connor Bedard and Ducks’ Trevor Zegras score lacrosse goals on same night after..

Christmas came early for hockey fans with a highlight-reel night before the NHL’s three-day break. Saturday’s slate of games saw not one but two players pull off a lacrosse-style goal within mere hours of each other.

Rookie phenom Connor Bedard started the festivities with an impressive tally for the Chicago Blackhawks before noted Michigan fiend Trevor Zegras repeated the feat for the Anaheim Ducks.

Bedard’s crazy count came under five minutes into the challenge. After his underlying shot endeavor went wide, Bedard got a pass from Philipp Kurashev behind the net prior to gathering up the puck and sending it behind him past St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington.
In 33 games up to this point, Bedard has now scored 13 objectives his newbie season. His 30 all out focuses up to this point (13g, 17a) positions first on the Blackhawks, driving the following nearest player by 11.
Wayne Gretzky ended up seeing Bedard’s Michigan objective live, watching the game face to face from the Venture Community. The Incomparable One owned up to Bally Games Midwest’s Andy Strickland that the lacrosse-style objective was something even he was unable to achieve.
“I was unable to do what he did this evening,” Gretzky said. ” That simply wasn’t in my collection. I didn’t have the right sort of bend. Hully (Brett Structure) could do it. I’ll never be able to do what he did tonight. It was amusing to watch.

“While I’m with my daughter Emma, she asks, “Dad, did you ever do that?” I said, ‘No, I would never do that.'”
Zegras defeated the Seattle Kraken in a stunning match just two hours later. The puck was brought into the zone by Ducks blueliner Pavel Mintyukov, who then passed it back to Zegras at the right faceoff circle to initiate the play. Zegras skated around the rear of the net, throwing it behind Kraken netminder Joey Daccord and in.
Saturday night’s count denotes the third Michigan of Zegras’ profession, more than some other NHL player. He likewise collaborated with then-Duck Sonny Milano in December 2021, sending a lacrosse-style pass to Milano for the notable “Dishigan” objective.
“I wasn’t figuring a ton, in all honestly,” Zegras told Bally Games West’s Aly Lozoff postgame. ” That’s what normally when I do, not much goes through my brain. Fortunate enough I got it up lovely fast and it stuck on my stick, so fortunate enough that it went in.”

Zegras only learned about the Michigan doubleheader later that night, so he was unaware of Bedard’s goal during the game.

“I had no clue,” he said. ” Since we were having fun,

Zegras had a gut feeling that he would make the trick shot in his first game back after missing 20 games due to injury.

He stated, “All I’m going to say is that I told [Jamie Drysdale] I was going to do it.”

All 32 NHL teams will be off until December 27 as the holiday break begins on Sunday. However, with feature reels like these, there’ll be a lot of hockey to watch meanwhile.