It’s not as if the Minnesota Wild don’t have enough problems: Down 0-1 to the top seeded Dallas Stars while missing key players. Now they have to deal with goals scored from behind the net off of their goalie’s head on a puck that was kicked, yet not with a “distinct kicking motion”.
It was Antoine Roussel that made it happen:
That really has to be one of the weirdest goals ever scored. Technically, it wasn’t a kicking motion, and the intent by Roussel surely wasn’t to score a goal with the toe of his skate off of Devan Dubnyk’s head. And you can award a goal if a defending player knocks the net off its moorings as the puck is about to cross the line. So the Wild had a difficult argument to win. But man, that’s a tough way to give up a goal in a playoff game that you wind up losing by one. Again, as if they didn’t have enough problems.
As for Roussel, he might have found a path to being a two sport athlete.
@DallasStars that Roussel is pretty good with his feet. Mind loaning him to us this summer? ⚽️⚽️⚽️
— FC Dallas (@FCDallas) April 17, 2016
