HC Orli Znojmo goalie Filip Landsman should have stayed at home.
Former Philadelphia Flyers second-round pick Mike Ratchuk channeled his inner Pavel Datsyuk and deked Landsman out of his pads to give Olimpija Ljubljana the 3-2 shootout win in Austria’s Erste Bank Eishockey Liga.
Ratchuk tweeted that the goal was a tribute to New York Islanders forward Kyle Okposo.
@jvreemer21 @buccigross that was my way of respectfully paying tribute to @bookert2116 #myidol
— Mike Ratchuk (@rattlesnake44) December 29, 2012
Despite his tributes, the former Michigan State Spartan clearly took a page from the book of Russian dangle-smith Pavel Datsyuk, who pulled off the same move on Tomas Vokoun in March 2006.
