Boston Bruins goaltender Linus Ullmark scores goal against Vancouver Canucks
Goaltender Linus Ullmark is helping the Boston Bruins to a record pace with his stellar play in net.
Now the All-Star has added a rare goalie goal to his repertoire.
Ullmark scored the NHL’s first goalie goal since Nashville Predators netminder Pekka Rinne’s 2020 achievement as the Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Saturday night.
The Vezina Trophy front-runner stopped a rolling puck just below the faceoff circle, set up and wristed a shot toward the empty Vancouver net. The Swedish goaltender’s shot landed between the Canucks faceoff circles and bounced in at 19:12 of the third period to give the Bruins a 3-1 lead.
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He was mobbed by Bruins players then skated to the Boston bench for a goal scorer’s traditional fist bump with teammates.
I tried in the Winter Classic and didn’t really make it, and now everything came together.”
He said a teammate had encouraged him to do the fist-bump celebration.