1. v. Florida Panthers
I don’t know if he meant to do this, I doubt it. Nevertheless, it’s a goal and by far his best of the year. Lucky or not, it’s quite pretty and should’ve made more highlight reels.
The puck is fired towards the net from the point with the hope of it being redirected. So, Bozak gets his stick on it and the puck flies up and over everyone including Luongo.
Boom, it’s in the back of the net. I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a deflection quite like this one. Just the way it streaks over everyone and like Jeff said, a rainbow deflection is just a beautiful sight. Whether it was intentional or not, it doesn’t matter. It happened, it went it.
Bonus
For the most part, Bozak isn’t a typical highlight type of player. But, that shouldn’t stop anyone from pointing out what he does right. Too often, we focus on what players do wrong.
In this bonus video, we see Bozak make a simple but, effective pass to van Riemsdyk who’s in alone on the net.
He keeps his head up along the boards looking to the point right before turning his head and dishing it off to the front of the net. van Riemsdyk’s able to tuck it home. Not anything too special but, let’s just marvel at the heads up play by Bozak here.