Greatest Moments of NHL Season … So Far: third round, matchup 4

The 2019-20 NHL season had many incredible moments before it was paused on March 12 due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus, and now fans can decide which one was the best.

The Greatest Moments of the NHL Season … So Far is down to 16 entries from the original bracket of 64 with the first two rounds now complete. Fans will vote on one matchup per day, ultimately deciding the greatest moment up until this point.

Fans can vote on Twitter and Instagram each day from noon until 10 a.m. ET the next day. Each day, the winner of that matchup will be revealed, and a new set of moments will go head-to-head.

Though fans will have the ultimate say, two NHL.com staffers will weigh in on the matchup each day to give his or her opinion on which one should advance to the fourth round.

In the matchup Wednesday, Marc-Andre Fleury's sprawling save for the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the welcome in Anaheim for the first responders who helped Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester during his cardiac incident.

The matchup Thursday pits Filip Forsberg's lacrosse-style goal for the Nashville Predators against Marc-Andre Fleury of the Vegas Golden Knights climbing the all-time NHL wins list.

Tracey Myers, staff writer

All due respect to Fleury continuing to add wins to an NHL career that's had plenty of them; I expect him to keep creeping up that list. With Forsberg, you know there's a chance he's going to do something great, you just never know what it's going to be. It's the unexpected that draws me in. Will he score after bobbing and weaving around the defensemen? Will he be pulling the puck between his skates before scoring? Forsberg has a glorious grab bag of options, and scoring the lacrosse-style goal on his backhand still ranks as a winner to me. I don't care that the goal has been scored by a few players this season -- I'm looking at you Carolina Hurricanes forward Andrei Svechnikov (twice). It's cool to watch every time. Milestone wins are always fun to celebrate, but so are snazzy goals. So Forsberg gets my nod.

Nick Cotsonika, columnist

The lacrosse-style goal is so 1996. That's when Mike Legg did it for the University of Michigan (and did it in a single-elimination NCAA tournament game, not a one-of-82-in-the-regular-season game). It took more than two decades for the NHL to catch up, and it has been done multiple times this season. As you pointed out, Tracey, Svechnikov has done it twice! In more than a century of NHL history, how many goalies have reached 460 wins? Five. That's it. Fleury didn't copycat an old highlight-reel play, though he made a big save on Vincent Trocheck when the score was 1-1 early in the second period, a turning point in what became a 7-2 win against the Florida Panthers. He joined Martin Brodeur (691), Patrick Roy (551), Roberto Luongo (489) and Ed Belfour (484) in the history books. That puts the "great" in Greatest Moments.

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