VIDEO: Phil Kessel's OT winner gets the NHL '94 treatment
John E. Sokolowski / USA Today
Phil Kessel's overtime winner against the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday looked eerily familiar to anyone who grew up on video games in the '90s.
The Toronto Maple Leafs forward pulled a move similar to a popular goal-scoring technique in the seminal hockey game NHL '94, where a player would skate into the zone along the side boards, go below the goal line and cut back in front of the net to slide the puck past the goaltender.
It was so similar, the good people who run the NHL's official YouTube account decided to add some graphics to complete the comparison:
(Courtesy: NHLVideo)
The only way to make it more like NHL '94 would have been a slap deke goal.
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