Hockey is an extremely fast game. That’s one of the best things about the sport — it flows and moves quickly. But it’s not normally THIS quick.
It took all of 10 seconds for New York Rangers center Mike Zibanejad to score the first goal of the game against the Anaheim Ducks. It all happened so quickly.
The Rangers won the face-off but the Ducks quickly stole the puck. Zibanejad happened to be skating in the right place at the right time and intercepted an arid pass from the Ducks on his way slashing to the goal. It led to a shot and, boom, he scored.
10 seconds in and we're up 😎 ⚡ pic.twitter.com/VVkuodQL0U
— Rangers on MSG (@RangersMSGN) December 14, 2019
The crazy part is he was still one second shy of scoring the fastest goal in franchise history. The record of nine seconds has been hit twice in Rangers history — once by Ron Duguay in 1980 and another time by Jim Wiemer in 1985.
Got to be quicker than that, I guess. It’s still impressive.