It was, the way Dominik Simon saw it, simply "amazing."
Evgeni Malkin shrugged it off as nothing more than"hockey instincts."
But Bryan Rust might have had the best explanation for how Malkin made the no-look drop pass to him that set up the Penguins' third goal in their 7-3 victory against the Wild at PPG Paints Arena Tuesday night.
The most imaginative one, anyway.
"He's Russian," Rust said. "He's got like three eyes, or something."
He might have a point, because that assist did border on being other-worldly.