Boston Bruins continue to dominate the NHL with their impressive performance this season,
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boasting an impressive 95 points - the best record in the league.
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In addition to their goal-scoring prowess, the Bruins have now added another way to score goals - through their own netminders.
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In a recent game against the Vancouver Canucks, with the Canucks' net empty and Boston leading 2-1 in the final minute of regulation,
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Bruins' goalie Linus Ullmark took matters into his own hands.
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He handled the puck and fired a shot from the opposite side of the ice, lobbing it over everyone's head and into the empty net,
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giving the Bruins a comfortable two-goal lead.
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Ullmark's goal made him the ninth goalie in NHL history to score on his own shot,
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with only eight previous netminders having achieved this feat. The other instances were own goals,
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usually due to errant passes with an empty net where the goalie was the last player on the scoring team to touch the puck.
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Martin Brodeur, the legendary New Jersey Devils goalie, found the net three times in his career, with only one being his own shot.
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Ron Hextall did it twice, both on direct shots, with the Philadelphia Flyers. He remains the only goalie to have scored multiple goals via his own shot.
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Ullmark's goal is the first scored by a goalie since Pekka Rinne did it for the Nashville Predators on Jan. 9, 2020, who too did it on a direct shot.
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With this win, the Bruins further solidified their position in the NHL with a 45-8-5 record,
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making them a team to be feared on all fronts, including scoring from their own netminders.