Linus Ullmark is experiencing the best season of his career so far.
He has the NHL's best save percentage of 93.8 percent (if you exclude the goalies who played less than two games) and also has the lowest number of goals allowed per 60 minutes played with 1.86 (again excluding four goalies who only played one match each).
But Ullmark also proves to have some offensive talents.
The 29-year-old got the puck in his own goal as Vancouver pushed for an equalizer with the goalie taken out at 2-1.
Ullmark took a chance, aimed and shot.
The puck flew high over half court, it reached the ice between the drawing circles in the offensive zone from where it slid into the goal with 47 seconds left in the game.
"You see history being written"
- You see history being written, shouted the commentator while Ullmark had to go forward and receive the traditional goalscoring congratulations from the bench.
The last time a goaltender scored in the league was in 2020, when Pekka Rinne scored against Nashville.
Linus Ullmark was not the only Swede to celebrate in Boston this evening.
Hampus Lindholm scored the team's first goal on the power play barely three minutes into the match.
It was his seventh of the season.
Boston's victory was the sixth in a row, and the team leads the league by far.
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The goalie legend Dominik Hasek does not want to see Alexander Ovetchkin in the NHL.
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