Andrei Vasilevskiy, the Tampa Bay Lightning goalie, snares Sidney Crosby's backhanded shot from the slot with his glove, fakes as if he's going to keep the puck in play and move it to a skater, but instead decides he'll skate the puck out himself.
He skates. He dips his shoulder, dangles and dekes, then moves the puck to a teammate having already started the offense from the back end.
"Why not?" Vasilevskiy asked rhetorically.
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Because never in a million years would this happen in a regular game.
But it could happen during the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Game at SAP Center (8 p.m. ET; NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS), where the goalies will want to be part of the show in a good way other than just being the foil for the elite forwards and defensemen playing a wide open game of 3-on-3, attacking the netminders with a string of breakaways, 2-on-0s and 2-on-1s that at any other point in the season would give them nightmares.
"I mean, it's pretty hard," Vasilevskiy said. "Especially for me, because I'm not Patrick Roy, but maybe I'll try something like that at some point. It's a show. It's all for the fans so maybe I will do something."
Maybe they all will, all eight of them that are guaranteed at least 10 minutes in net.
The goalies in the All-Star Game obviously want to make as many saves as they can because, really, that is the point, to stop the breakaways, the 2-on-0s and the 2-on-1s. But breaking out of their comfort zones, away from their normal see the puck, stop the puck mentality, and taking a risk just for the fun of it, could make the event a heck of a lot more fun for them.
Otherwise it's a tough 10 minutes on the goalies.
"I might have to," Minnesota Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk said. "I mean, my previous All-Star Game statistics are not great so I've got really nothing to lose."
Dubnyk allowed five goals on 13 shots in his 10 minutes of action for the Central Division at the 2016 All-Star Game in Nashville. He allowed five goals on 11 shots in his 10 minutes at the 2017 game in Los Angeles.
"An even 5.00 GAA," Dubnyk said. "It's the longest 10 minutes of my life."