Saw this on the Boston Bruins’ site this morning, and it has to be the most awesome hockey goal ever scored (caveat: I don’t watch that much hockey). Degree of difficulty: 9.0, because the kid is nine years old.
His name is Oliver Wahlstrom, and this is from TD Bank’s Mini 1-on-1 Challenge at TD Garden. Best part: How the goalie is just utterly befuddled. “Wait .. what?”
Video following the jump. Gotta see this.
Better quality video here. Young Oliver plays for the Portland (Maine) Junior Pirates League.
Pretty amazing, but not unprecedented, as it turns out. Here’s Max Gerlach, 9, from Cappell, Texas, during intermission at a Dallas Stars game in 2007.
What’s with kids these days? When I was nine I was playing in mud.
2:07 pm on October 15th, 2009
Ha! Cool!…
3:12 pm on October 15th, 2009
Mike Legg did this in 1996 at Michigan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzsOkwHYBno
3:58 pm on October 15th, 2009
Sick.
4:15 pm on October 15th, 2009
Whoa…
4:39 pm on October 15th, 2009
plenty of people at the professional level have done this….but a 9 year old?? wow thats impressive
Robbie Schremp is still the best at the puck tricks…google him
4:50 pm on October 15th, 2009
MEH nothing new
9:18 pm on October 15th, 2009
Try ‘Coppell’….not ‘Cappell’….
5:39 am on October 16th, 2009
What Mike Legg did was entirely different, but entirely just as cool. But to say they’re the same thing would require your eyes getting checked.
8:56 am on October 16th, 2009
You know who, as impressive as this goal is for a nine yr old (or anyone else for that matter) that was a 1 on 1 competition. Legg’s goal was in a western conference regional game with his team down by one goal. That was a game tying goal. I think that make Legg’s goal even better. Besides this kid is mimmicking a goal from Rob Hisey in a skills comp for the minors. Kids have been practicing this move since he did it.
9:20 am on October 16th, 2009
Gotta love the
9:21 am on October 16th, 2009
Gotta love the goalie body language… classic, “what the…”
11:50 pm on October 16th, 2009
Very nice backhanded stickwork with an R-curve stick…..
Hope they practice this diligently on their School Homework.