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    Watch 19-year-old Dominic Lammer’s sneaky lacrosse goal in Swiss league (Video)

    By Greg Wyshynski | Puck Daddy – Sun, Jan 15, 2012 12:04 PM EST

    There's that wonderful moment in hockey when you know the lacrosse shot* is coming. It's when the defenders are all a safe distance away, having left an attacking player alone behind the net. Then the guy with the puck crouches down and begins to lift it with his stick. You can imagine where it goes from here.

    That scenario played out in a recent Swiss league game, as Dominic Lammer of EVZ (Glen Metropolit's team!) electrified the crowd with this sneaky shot against the Kloten Flyers:

    (Please note the preceding video was labeled "Airhook von Dominic Lammer" on YouTube and was uploaded by someone named "LammerAirhook." Which is awesome.)

    There's an interesting back story to this latest lacrosse goal as well.

    From reader Adrian Iten, who hipped us to this clip:

    The 19-year old Dominic Lammer is playing for EV Zug in the Swiss National League A (highest league). He was replacing Zug's (and league's) top scorer Damien Brunner as he was out due to sickness.

    It was his 5th game of the season and his first NLA-goal. He scored two goals that night and yesterday; Saturday night he had a double goal night again. So quite a good weekend  He played six games this year with 4 goals and 2 assists.

    Before he played in Zug he just played 3 other NLA-games for Kloten.

    Funny fact is, that he was replacing Damien Brunner who was doing this last year in a game against EHC Biel:

    Another fun fact is, that Brunner once had been traded from Kloten Flyers to Zug for nothing (a bad 4th liner called Thomas Walser). Now he's one of the best Swiss offence players and for sure the most creative one. Nice Datsyuk-style shoot out goal:

    Now Lammer is traded via Kloten Flyers to Zug as well. And of course everybody is hoping now that they get another Damien Brunner.

    Swiss drama! Thanks for the info, sir.

    * Whenever we run a clip labeled as a "lacrosse goal," there are always comments from our European readers about how the inspiration is actually Floorball and the "Zorro goal." True as this may be, Mike Legg's was a lacrosse goal. All others shall be categorized thusly.

     

    12 comments

    • ABC123
      ABC123  •  Fresno, California  •  4 months ago
      Oh look its a skating billboard
      • Spencer
        Spencer 4 months ago
        Terrible looking isn't it? My conspiracy theory is that the NHL is "testing" using jerseys and helmets for ad space with things like the memorial patches, extra helmet stickers for numbers and ads on practice jerseys. The league is just slowly trying to get fans used to seeing more on the jerseys and helmets. This way they can do it slowly and turn the great NHL jerseys into these atrocities.
    • Gabe
      Gabe  •  4 months ago
      thats just bad defense. and i really hope the ads dont get that bad here in the NHL.
    • Hanzi
      Hanzi  •  St Catharines, Canada  •  4 months ago
      my god...those jerseys *pukes*
    • Sequoit
      Sequoit  •  4 months ago
      That M&Ms face-off dot is a thing of nightmares.
    • lupi
      lupi  •  New York, New York  •  4 months ago
      This is everything I hope the NHL never turns into. I honestly almost threw up.
      • Daniel
        Daniel 4 months ago
        No one has that much time in the office nowadays. It'd never happen.
      • lupi
        lupi 4 months ago
        I was talking more about the advertisements everywhere, and the soccer field sized ice.
      • Daniel
        Daniel 4 months ago
        Well then yes, I agree
    • Moraxian
      Moraxian  •  Germantown, Maryland  •  4 months ago
      Love how the comentator goes "Wow!" even in German.
    • million_miles_an_hour
      million_miles_an_hour  •  Grand Rapids, Michigan  •  4 months ago
      I just like the massive M&M ad in the faceoff circle...
    • Laurent F
      Laurent F  •  Zurich, Switzerland  •  4 months ago
      Happy day for Domminic Lammer. The best way to start scoring goals in the big league.

      Yop ... advertisement isnt't that great ... yet you can watch the game, it is not cut into momentum loosing advertisement interuptions. A tradeoff ... which is the best ? i informe, you dispose.
    • Steven W
      Steven W  •  Piscataway, New Jersey  •  4 months ago
      Did he have to lift his right leg LIKE A FAIRY during the lacrosse shot? Tottaly made himself look like Tinkerbell.
    • Juha
      Juha  •  Toronto, Canada  •  4 months ago
      Greg, great to see you reference floorball! Anyone can Google "Floorball + Zorro" now and see why these amazing goals are happening in European hockey much more than in North America! You are right in that Mike Legg's goal was indeed Lacrosse inspired but it's silly to label European Airhook or Zorro goals as Lacrosse when most of these players have never played lacrosse and in many cases may not have even heard of the sport.
    • Carol R
      Carol R  •  New York, New York  •  4 months ago
      The commentator in the 1st video sounds like Claus from American Dad.
    • Dan
      Dan  •  4 months ago
      Giant M&Ms !!!
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