# Pretty good at 9!!!!! (Hockey goal)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [October 15, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857 "2009-10-15T01:55:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/1 "2009-10-15T01:55:47Z")
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Watch this amazing goal by a 9-year-old. Pretty resourceful, if you ask me… :eek:
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/2 "2009-10-15T22:50:58Z")
That is pretty awesome. I love the WTF? from the goalie, just kind of looking at the ref, totally unsure what to do!
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/3 "2009-10-16T00:43:25Z")
Thats amazing.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/4 "2009-10-16T04:21:00Z")
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I watched this and all I could say was “OHHHH SHIT!” over and over!
(sorry for the brief ad before the video, but trust me it’s worth it)
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### Author:  [@satoridt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satoridt)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/5 "2009-10-16T05:54:36Z")
that was fucking cool.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/6 "2009-10-16T06:09:19Z")
well fuck me
I guess this is an actual shot, since I found video of others doing it
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncz_OkJKEbY)
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1eWkqTmlXM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1eWkqTmlXM) (another 9 year old kid)
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/7 "2009-10-16T10:42:41Z")
[Someone already posted a thread about this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=535994)😃
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/8 "2009-10-16T12:12:09Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#):
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> [Someone already posted a thread about this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=535994)😃
Merged threads.
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### Author:  [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/9 "2009-10-16T16:04:08Z")
This was one of the most awesome shots I’ve ever seen. I would love to know why we’ve never seen it at the pro level-
Does anyone know the rules on shooting the puck? Are you permitted to have the puck on your stick and slingshot it like that in the pros? I have seen a number of players pick up the puck like that and put it on their blade, usually after a stop in play. Some of the pros can actually “juggle” the puck on the end of their stick blade. It’s pretty impressive. But I’ve never seen a pro actually take a shot like that.
Still, thumbs up for the 9 year old and the coolest goal I’ve seen in a long time!
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/10 "2009-10-16T16:17:11Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#):
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> This was one of the most awesome shots I’ve ever seen. I would love to know why we’ve never seen it at the pro level-
In real play it would never work. You’d be caught from behind if on a breakaway or you’d be stick checked if in traffic.
It’s possible that it would work (once) on a penalty shot or a shootout, but NHL goalies have faster reaction times and that shot takes forever to set up (compared to a wrist shot).
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### Author:  [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/11 "2009-10-16T16:18:16Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#):
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> This was one of the most awesome shots I’ve ever seen. I would love to know why we’ve never seen it at the pro level-
A pro goalie could probably stop the shot pretty easily. A lacrosse shot like that won’t move anywhere near as fast as a good snapshot.
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> Does anyone know the rules on shooting the puck? Are you permitted to have the puck on your stick and slingshot it like that in the pros?
You can do whatever you like so long as the stick does not contact the puck above the height of the crossbar.
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/12 "2009-10-16T17:01:19Z")
In the pros, a keeper would immediately come out the minute he saw the shot being set up, to cut down the angle and block the shot. It works in this case because the keeper doesn’t know what is coming.
A very similar sort of shot was recently shown on the internet with an American player in Croatia’s hockey league scooping up the puck from behind the net and shoving it in off the back of the keeper. At the time I watched that video, my thought was, “what the heck were they doing letting him sit all alone behind the net without checking him???”
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/13 "2009-10-16T18:45:25Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#):
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> This was one of the most awesome shots I’ve ever seen. I would love to know why we’ve never seen it at the pro level-
The closest I’ve seen – and I hope this jogs someone’s memory, because I can’t remember the teams – is a player taking the puck from behind the net, swooping it up onto his stick like the kid, and then wrapping the stick from behind the net to around the post of the goal and dumping the puck in, if that description makes any sense.
edit: OK, it wasn’t pro…it was college:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzsOkwHYBno)
edit2: And here’s the same one from a Croatian hockey match:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=936AJJXzwlE)
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### Author:  [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/14 "2009-10-16T19:29:53Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> The closest I’ve seen – and I hope this jogs someone’s memory, because I can’t remember the teams – is a player taking the puck from behind the net, swooping it up onto his stick like the kid, and then wrapping the stick from behind the net to around the post of the goal and dumping the puck in, if that description makes any sense.
Sidney Crosby did that in junior one year. That’s probably the one you saw as Crosby was getting a lot of media attention even then.
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### Author:  [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/15 "2009-10-16T20:32:07Z")
If you notice, in the Croatia clip, as soon as he saw the player lay his stick flat, he attempted to block the top corner of the net…he knew exactly what was coming next. Still couldn’t stop it, but that’s probably the reason you don’t see it much at the pro level…the goalies and defense could likely react way too quickly to make it effective.
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### Author:  [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/16 "2009-10-16T23:05:16Z")
Here’s another sweet [penalty goal.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_X5FdpsWpg&feature=related)
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-at-9-hockey-goal/513857/17 "2009-10-16T23:08:30Z")
I’m with **DSYoungEsq**. No way in hell should the guy have that much room and time to set up the shot behind the net. Unless it’s a power play, maybe, but even then.
Hmm actually unless a defensive player is hiding up at the blue line, the Croatian goal was actually on the power play.