Colorado Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson has solved the mystery of the hockey-verse. No one else can figure out what an on-sides goal is, but our cornerstone defenseman has.
Well, he scored one anyway. One of only three goals the Avalanche scored was a tally that was so-close to being offsides. Luckily for Avs Nation, Johnson appears to have big feet — it was just the heels of his skates that remained on the blueline as forward Matt Calvert drives into the zone:
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It’s hard to tell from any of the angles in this replay, but Johnson keeps his feet flat as he enters the zone a nano-second after the puck.