We love sports video game glitches for the simple reason that games have become so realistic that glitches add a different and fun element to the game, unless the glitch happens to cost you a game, in which case forget everything you just read.

Back to the fun glitches, though, nothing is better than something unexpected happening, and that's the case in this video as a great deke goes completely wrong.

 

 

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We know goalies can make a big hit every now and then, but we're not used to seeing a goalie, or any player for that matter, sending another player airborne like this.

That's what makes the glitch so funny, though, and with the height Nikita Kucherov got on that hit, he looked more like a high jumper than a hockey player, minus the soft landing of course.

 

(H/T: Duggan Backus)