With every passing time Artemi Panarin raises his stick blade off the ice, rotates his shoulders through his body, and uses the kinetic energy to put a charge into the puck, he's becoming more and more like a 15-year-old Kenan Thompson.
No, it's not because Panarin is getting ready to exclaim his shot selection, and no, it's not because said ensuing shot will defy the laws of physics, dipping and diving on its path to the crease while simultaneously creating a hypnotic effect that renders goalies without their fine motor skills.
Those talents belonged to Russ Tyler, whom a teenaged Thompson portrayed in D2: The Mighty Ducks.