Alex Ovechkin and Steven Stamkos traded goals in the first period, in what some are calling (okay, just me) an Unc Off.
Stamkos, however, had the highlight-reel play of the second period, going head-over-heels after crashing into Charlie Lindgren in a puck race.
Upon closer look, Lindgren poke-checked the puck away first as he slid his stick along the ice, but as Stamkos arrived, his goalie twig slid up into Stamkos’s berries, flipping the future Hockey Hall of Famer high into the air.
And to be clear, by berries, I mean Stamkos’s nads. His stones. His cojones.
Alan May was amused while Monumental Sports Network aired the highlight during the second intermission. “Watch where this stick goes in Steve Stamkos,” he said.
The word I think May’s looking for here is testicles.
“It was amazing he was able to get up and walk away from that one,” May concluded.
After the game, Stamkos commented on the play. He was thankfully “no worse for wear” and his voice wasn’t an octave higher.
“It was a good pole vault,” Stamkos said. “Never pole-vaulted before, but as soon as I felt that stick kinda get caught in my groin, then went up in the air, it was a little scary. You don’t want to land on your head.”
