In a fantastic series of gifs, Tumblr user maljic captured an empty-net goal by St. Louis Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships.
Tarasenko joined a number of his fellow countrymen on Team Russia, among them, Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin. Malkin and Tarasenko have been tearing up the ice together, with Vladi on the Penguin’s wing, but nothing they’ve done during the past week was funnier than the moment shown below.
Tarasenko scored a gorgeous empty-net goal from his stomach Thursday, May 14th, against Sweden. It should have been a quick goal, easily netted, but Tarasenko’s full-out, all-hands-on-deck charge will not soon be forgotten.