@sozobe,
sozobe wrote:
I needed at least five replays to figure out what I was seeing. Then the rest of 'em I was trying to figure out how he scooped it like that. Velcro? Chewing gum?
Scooping up a puck with the curved blade of a hockey stick is actually not that difficult -- players will routinely pick up pucks with their sticks in order to hand the puck to refs and linesmen during games -- although scooping up a moving puck is rather more difficult. The real trick, though, is to spin around with the puck on the blade and then whip it into the net on the backhand. I wouldn't be surprised if that young man is also a lacrosse player.