The NHL has been a flurry of chaos over the last month, with teams testing positive for COVID-19, getting games postponed, and losing formerly-promising young defenders to social media gaffes and locker room distractions.
But while most of the chaos has ranged from disappointing to downright frustrating, though, the chaotic gaffe by Boston Bruins starting goaltender Tuukka Rask on Wednesday night was nothing short of hilarious.
The Bruins were tightly locked in a close 2-2 matchup with the New York Rangers, counting down the final minutes of play before the game hit overtime, when Rask skated out of the blue paint to challenge — and then just kept going, skating all the way over to the bench in a seeming attempt to pull himself in the last :55 seconds of a tie game:
It was the most baffling blunder by a professional athlete since JR Smith forgot the game was tied during Cleveland’s playoff run in 2018, gifting the world with the best LeBron James meme we’ll ever get.