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Originally Posted by theoforever
You can see, on the gif it hits back of back skate.
The angle suggest it could not come directly off Johnny's stick.
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I have stared at the gif for a while longer, and I'm still not convinced it hits the skate. It still looks to me like he banked it off the boards. Further, I have to wonder—if he was curling the puck behind him like that with a German defender right on his tail—where did he think that puck was going? He looks over his shoulder right to Abdelkader, so as to see that his "pass" connects precisely the way he intended.