Fans of old-school hockey love hip checks, but don’t sleep on a wicked backhander.
Sidney Crosby is generally regarded as the modern champion of the infrequently-dangerous shot, but Jeff Skinner scored his second goal of the night with a really sweet one off of a partial breakaway.
Watch as he takes a nice breakout pass and beats Henrik Lundqvist to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 2-1 lead against the New York Rangers:
The Hurricanes are off to a tough start, but consider this: tonight marks their first home game of 2016-17.
They also happen to have one of the best-kept-secret top lines in Skinner, Victor Rask and Lee Stempniak.
Since you took the trouble to click, here’s the first goal Skinner scored tonight, free of charge:
Update: It seemed like Skinner got a hat trick, but instead he grabbed an assist on a late goal in the second period. He still has 20 minutes (maybe more?) to get that third goal, however.
If nothing else, the Hurricanes had fun with it:
when you know it's not your hat trick 😐 pic.twitter.com/5DRnUUBkj5
— Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) October 29, 2016
Skinner ended up figuring into all three Carolina goals as the Hurricanes beat the Rangers 3-2.