GIF: Daniel Sedin scores incredible, immediately disallowed goal with his forearm

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The Sedin twins put on a show at Rogers Arena on Saturday night.

Facing the Detroit Red Wings on Hockey Night in Canada, Henrik Sedin managed a breakaway (and didn’t score) within seconds of the opening faceoff on Saturday, and that was just the start of it for Vancouver’s top line. Throughout the opening two periods of the contest the five-alarm scoring chances came in waves for both Henrik and Daniel. Daniel was particularly exciting to watch as he was willing to try anything, from a jam play where he put the puck through his legs first, to a forearm tally the likes of which I’ve never seen before. 

Simply put, Daniel was armed and dangerous on Saturday night – with an emphasis on the armed part. 

At one point on a particularly dangerous second period power play, play was stopped when Daniel appeared to elbow the puck in the slot to keep play alive. The referee blew the play down and ruled it a hand pass. Brandon Sutter scored several seconds later to put the Canucks up 2-0.

A bit later in the period Daniel was throwing bows yet again. This time he managed to expertly redirect a Radim Vrbata shot past Petr Mrazek with his forearm. It was all kinds of impressive:

I’ve been watching hockey my entire life, and I can honestly say that I’ve never seen that before.

The goal was instantly disallowed for the same reason that Andrew Shaw’s impressive double OT header this past spring was. Under rule 78.5 governing disallowed goals, the NHL’s rulebook rules that the following criteria should render a goal disallowed:

Fair enough, but whether the goal counted or not it doesn’t change the fact that this was a remarkable athletic play by Daniel.