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Ottawa’s Linus Ullmark’s Incredible Diving Stop May Be the Save of the NHL Season

Stephen Douglas

Linus Ullmark makes an incredible diving save against the Boston Bruins.
Linus Ullmark makes an incredible diving save against the Boston Bruins. / Photo by Richard A. Whittaker / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
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The Ottawa Senators hosted the Boston Bruins at the Canadian Tire Center on Thursday night. The home crowd saw a 6–3 Senators win and one of the best saves of the NHL season.

Linus Ullmark was in goal for the Senators, making his 33rd start of the season. Up 5–3 late in the second period Ullmark found himself on the wrong side of the goal as Boston's Mason Lohrei took a shot at what must have looked like an empty net.

That's when Ullmark dove across goal crease to make a glove save which may be the save of the year.

Yes, it was a beauty. He was basically parallel to the ice, which is pretty impressive when you consider how heavy those pads are.

Ullmark entered the night 31st in shots against and ninth in the NHL in save percentage. With a glove like that it's shocking to think that he's ever surrendered a goal.

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Stephen Douglas is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He has worked in media since 2008 and now casts a wide net with coverage across all sports. Douglas spent more than a decade with The Big Lead and previously wrote for Uproxx and The Sporting News. He has three children, two degrees and one now unverified Twitter account.

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