The play, predictably, lit up social media.
It also immediately recalled another famous goal from the player with the second-most goals in NHL history.
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Now, Alex Ovechkin's "simply sensational" goal from his rookie year was scored from his back with him batting the puck in from over his head. But the rough outlines of the two amazing scores are pretty similar: no-look, falling to the ice, sweeping the puck in from an odd position down on the ice and a total how-in-the-world-did-that-go-in factor.
Well done, Patrick O'Shaughnessey, or as we will be reffering to him from now on, ACC-ex Ovechkin.