Somewhere Mike Legg is Smiling

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Max Gerlach is nine years old. He was not alive in 1996. For those of us that were, one couldn't help but watch the SportsCenter clip above and immediately think about Mike Legg. While you might not remember the name, you almost certainly remember the goal. Legg was the Michigan hockey player who famously pulled the puck on the blade trick to tuck a goal into the corner of the net against Minnesota in the NCAA Western Regionals over a decade ago. As I recall, it got nominated for an ESPY for play of the year.

At the time, I remember thinking that it was the sickest in-game hockey goal I'd ever seen (admittedly not knowing a ton about hockey). Max Gerlach channeled Mike Legg with his halftime display. The move itself is arguably even nastier, but we've got to give Legg the advantage in terms of the situation. Max, maybe one day you can pull something like that in a big game. Wonder if we'll still be blogging then...a frightening thought.

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posted at 6:10 PM