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Alexander Kerfoot’s Sweater Goal
Maybe Harvard boys have got to do things different. I get that Alexander Kerfoot went to Harvard to play hockey, but he graduated from the Ivy League university, and they don’t just give away those diplomas for being good at sports.
Whatever the rationale, Kerfoot scored some… weird goals last season. The goal he tallied against the Edmonton Oilers on February 18 was perhaps the weirdest.
The goal came midway through the second period with the score tied at one apiece. Defenseman Anton Lindholm cycles at the blueline and takes a slapshot. Meanwhile, Kerfoot has taken up office just to the left of Allen.
Watch as the puck slingshots across Kerfoot’s jersey and into the net:
Alexander Kerfoot knows immediately that the goal is his. He knows what he’s done. Being a Harvard grad, he may even understand the physics behind how he’s done it. The rest of us… not so much.