It's not often we see a player score a goal from outside the blueline in hockey, but when it occurs, you can't help but shake your head in disbelief.
But how about from the other goal line? During a game in the KHL between Jokerit and HC Slovan Bratislava, defender Oliver Lauridsen added insult to injury when he extended Jokerit's lead to 7-0 by scoring one of the more improbable goals you will ever witness in hockey,
Retreating deep in his own zone after receiving, Lauridsen fired the puck down the ice from his own goal line. The Dane put a little extra mustard on the shot, as he launched the wrister high into the air before it landed right in front of the HC Slovan goal. The puck took a crazy, Vesa Toskala-bounce and hopped over Marek Ciliak's shoulder for Lauridsen's second of the season.
Ciliak was filling in suspended goaltender Jakub Stepanek, who's sat out the first game of a five-game suspension for firing a broken stick at an official.
Ciliak could've allowed another two goals from the goal line and would've likely not been pulled, as former NHLer Casey Bailey had to suit up as the back-up goaltender since the KHL didn't allow the club to dress an actual goaltender as part of the disciplinary action.
(h/t KHL)
