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Hockey player uses amazingly lucky deflection to score overtime goal in playoff game

Published Mar. 28, 2017 8:01 a.m. ET

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Pete Blackburn

A Swedish Hockey League playoff game came to a wild ending on Monday night with an overtime goal that's as lucky as it is impressive.

Here's the highlight in question, which comes from Game 6 of the series between Frölunda HC and Skelleftea:

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That's Frölunda forward Nicklas Lasu who banks his shot off a stick laying on the ice to beat the goaltender for the 2-1 win in the extra frame. As you can see in the replay, a Frölunda player knocks the stick out of the hands of a Skelleftea player before Lasu gets the puck and proceeds to use the driftwood as a backboard.

It looks like Lasu intentionally threw the puck off of the stick hoping for the best, but it still requires a huge amount of luck for this play to actually work out as well as it did.

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After the game, Lasu said he had been training hard to pull off that move. We'll have to assume to he was joking.

Not only was a unique goal, it was also an incredibly important one. The game-winner game in Game 6 forces a do-or-die Game 7 matchup between Frölunda and Skelleftea with a spot on the SHL semi-finals on the line.

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