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In front of more than 13,000 fans in Australia, Arizona Coyotes rookie Logan Cooley scored one of the best goals you’ll see all year to help his team beat the Los Angeles Kings 5-3 to open the 2023 NHL Global Series on Saturday.
Cooley, 19, first showed deadly potential in transition, as a quick give-and-go opened up just enough room to create magic. Cooley then wowed the Australian crowd with an incredible spin move, then beguiled the Kings by scoring a dazzling diving goal.
There are pros and cons to watching Cooley’s goal in slow motion. On one hand, it gives your brain a chance to truly process the moves he makes. On the other hand, it may downplay the difficulty, as the young forward changed his stick and body position with blinding speed.
“That was one of the best moves I’ve ever seen,” Coyotes forward Clayton Keller said, via NHL.com. “The spin-o-rama was one thing, but then to have the patience to pull it to your forehand and then finish it, it’s definitely the best I’ve ever seen.”
Cooley could make Calder Trophy race interesting alongside Bedard
Even if that goal and win won’t “count” toward the Coyotes’ regular-season totals, you can forgive people for daydreaming about a more exciting team that features Keller’s underrated top line alongside the combination of Cooley and veteran forward Jason Zucker.
After being selected third overall in the 2022 NHL Draft, Cooley scored 22 goals and 60 points in 39 NCAA games last season for the University of Minnesota. By Rob Vollman’s NHL equivalency formula, that would translate to a 42-point NHL season.
Some wonder if Cooley may even push Connor Bedard in a potential Calder Trophy race.
Time will tell if that's the case, but he’s already made a heck of an impression on hockey fans in the Southern Hemisphere.
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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