Winnipeg Jets Prospect Scores On Backhand From Center Ice (Video)
By Cory Buck
Winnipeg Jets prospect Carl Klingberg scored a goal on a fluky backhand flip from center ice with the St. John’s Ice Caps of the AHL.
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The Winnipeg Jets and their fans probably won’t have a lot to cheer for this year save for the off-chance the team can get Deflated for McDavid or whatever slogan you choose to use when you root for your team to fail abjectly so that it may draft the
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In the meantime, Jets fans will have to content themselves with this video of a current prospect looking to crack the pro lineup. If Carl Klingberg can figure out how to replicate the success of the move seen below, he just might stick in the NHL.
It takes all of ten seconds to appreciate this video simply from the broadcasting perspective. The play-by-play man is just mentioning Klingberg’s goose egg in the goals column to start his time in the AHL and the 23-year-old sends a spinning backhander looping up then downward to roll off the goalie’s pad and into the net.
As a second-round pick in 2009, Klingberg was hoping to make the big team this year, but the Jets — while struggling in the standings — sport a decent crop of forwards that made their roster tough to crack. Klingberg was sent to the AHL, where he was hoping to make an impression.
The one seen above may not be the goal that gets Klingberg back to the pros, but if it can shake loose some confidence for future goals, then perhaps he can look at this flukey play as the karmic impetus for better things ahead.
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