After Jean-Gabriel Pageau banked the puck off the glass with time ticking away, the disc became like a super ball outside the Sharks blue line, jumping this way and that. Somehow, Kelly (inset) got control, slipping his way through the middle, past defencemen Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Justin Braun, before beating goalie Martin Jones.
Pageau and Erik Karlsson received the official assists, but Kelly’s basement ball hockey practice came in handy, too.
“Well, I play with the kids and I split through the girls like that, too,” Kelly said, sporting a wide smile. “The little one slashes, though.