The Spengler Cup is an annual invitation-only hockey tournament held in Switzerland, founded in 1923 by Dr. Carl Spengler. (Alas, not Dr. Egon Spengler.) Its trophy looks like something Superman would have won if the Fortress of Solitude had a beer league.
Among the teams in this year's tournament are Latvian team Dinamo Riga of the KHL and Kloten Flyers of Switzerland, who met on Monday in Davos.
In the second period, winger Roberts Bukarts of Riga fired the puck on the Flyers goal and watched as it clanged off the crossbar. The ricochet sent it straight in the air; as it fell back down, the puck bounced off the back of goalie Ronnie Rüeger and fell into the net. You might have to watch this a couple of times to pick that all up:
Riga won he game, 9-2. Here's how the official Spengler Cup live blog saw it:
Robert BURKARTS (sp) hits the cross-bar during the counter-attack, from there the puck flies high up in the air, falls down back on the cross-bar one more time, from there on the back of goalkeeper Rüeger and from there into the net! A really extraordinary goal!
We're not sure it hit the crossbar a second time — the puck looked like it simply hit his back. But we agree: a really extraordinary goal. Even Rüeger seemed to find it a little amusing. And he should have been feeling murdery at that point.