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Columbus Blue Jackets forward and Michigan alum Kent Johnson didn’t just pull off any old “ Michigan” on Friday. Remarkably, Johnson successfully executed the skillful play 27 years to the day that Mike Legg scored the iconic goal for the first time.
Here’s Kent Johnson scoring with that increasingly popular (and decreasingly polarizing) lacrosse-style move for the Blue Jackets against the Islanders in Columbus’ eventual 5-4 OT win from Thursday. It marks the 20-year-old rookie's 15th goal of the season.
Strangely enough, Johnson has found a way to pull off “The Michigan” lacrosse goal in multiple hockey settings, but never during his time with the NCAA’s Michigan Wolverines.
Despite falling short of tucking one in top corner, the Port Moody, BC., native dominated at the University of Michigan, accumulating 64 points in 58 games over two seasons in college.
While he couldn’t find the right set of circumstances to pull such a move off at the collegiate level, Johnson did score that way at the 2022 World Juniors.
The Columbus Dispatch’s Brian Hedger points out that Johnson seemed to almost say “finally” when he scored with that bit of wizardry at the NHL level. That’s because Johnson has attempted it and nearly sealed the deal before, indicating a certain level of comfort deploying the sort of skill that makes cranky people like John Tortorella grind their teeth.
As Mike Legg told Sportsnet about his now-infamous goal, opponents tried to scare him out of attempting his personal ode to lacrosse.
“I had my life threatened. I had a bounty on my head,” Legg said. “At the start of games, guys would come up to me and say, ‘If you’re going to try that tonight, we are bench-clearing-brawling you. Like, we will jump you.’ I’m like, ‘Oh okay, that’s nice to know.'”
In the event that the iconic goal wasn’t burned into your memory — or if you just want to bask in the tally once again — here's Legg's March 24, 1996 classic.
Other lacrosse-style goals won’t make it feel like the stars have aligned quite like this one, but it’s wonderful that such superb displays of skill are becoming more and more common in hockey.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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