Call it the “Moon Shot,” or “Air Mail,” or anything you’d like, but Anze Kopitar’s 80-foot bomb of a pass, that led to Dustin Brown’s goal late in the third period against San Jose, was still a big topic of discussion on Tuesday. After the game, Murray said he had only seen a pass like that completed, for a goal, one other time in his career. Today, I asked him about that instance. Murray referenced a pass from Eric Lindros to Kevin Haller in a playoff game that led to a Haller goal. That would have been in the 1995 Eastern Conference semifinals, when Murray coached Lindros and Haller with the Philadelphia Flyers. I couldn’t find any video of that goal, but Haller scored within the first minute of overtime to give the Flyers a 2-0 series lead over New York, and the Flyers went on to sweep the Rangers. Murray had a good recollection of the Lindros-Haller play…
MURRAY: “Same play, almost from the same place. He flipped it over the top to Kevin Haller in an overtime game, and Haller went in on a breakaway and top-shelfed it. Exactly the same look. But that’s the only other time that I’ve ever been involved in a game that I’ve seen it. It’s a hell of a play. And that puck landed flat.”
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