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VIDEO: Team Sweden's Linus Klasen scores shootout goal with incredible kick deke

Vasily Fedosenko / REUTERS

Swedish forward Linus Klasen captured the attention of the hockey world in December with his unique, jaw-dropping take on the spin-o-rama. Now at the 2014 IIHF World Hockey Championships: he's done it again.

On Sunday Klasen scored another completely incredible shootout tally in the Tre Kronor's 4-3 victory over the Czech Republic. This time Klasen passed the puck to his skate, kicked the puck back to his stick, and then beat goaltender Alexander Salak to complete the highlight reel finish:

Klasen, who was third among all SHL players in scoring this season, spent one season in the Nashville Predators organization back in 2010-11. The diminutive Swedish scorer managed 45 points in 47 AHL games as a 25-year-old that season, but only managed to get into four total NHL games. He'll spend next season with Lugano of the NLA (Switzerland's top professional league); that is unless an NHL team decides that the 28-year-old might be useful in helping out with the collection of "Bettman points", which admittedly seems unlikely.

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