I've been calling hockey games for two decades, and I'm telling you right now – I've never seen anything quite like what William Eklund just did to the Boston Bruins. The San Jose Sharks forward broke a goal-scoring drought with an absolutely wild, gravity-defying, goal-of-the-year candidate that has the entire hockey world buzzing.
Picture this: Eklund is airborne. Full horizontal. Parallel to the ice. And somehow, some way, he gets his stick on the puck and buries it past Jeremy Swayman. The replays don't even make sense. It looks like a video game glitch, except it's real and it counted and it might be the prettiest goal we see all season.
"William Eklund goes full Bobby Orr in Boston," one headline screamed, and honestly, that's not hyperbole. This is Bobby Orr flying through the air after scoring the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 1970. This is a kid doing something that shouldn't be physically possible.
And he did it in Boston, of all places. On Boston ice. Against the Bruins. Breaking a scoring drought. The hockey gods have a sense of humor, folks.
The Sharks won the game 4-2, and while that's a solid road victory for a young team trying to build something in San Jose, nobody's talking about the final score. They're talking about that goal. The one that's going to be on highlight reels for years. The one that's going to be in Eklund's career montage when he retires.
VAR officials in the Bundesliga were watching Ragnar Ache's bicycle kick earlier in the day and losing their minds with excitement. Now imagine that energy, but for a hockey goal where a guy is literally flying through the air like Superman and somehow finding the back of the net.
The technical skill required to pull this off is absurd. Eklund had to track the puck while horizontal, adjust his stick angle mid-flight, generate enough power to beat an NHL goaltender, and place it accurately enough that couldn't make the save. Oh, and do all of this while his body is defying gravity.

