In the third period of Monday night's game, with the Flames down 2-0 to Jake Allen, defenseman Johnathan Kovacevic was able to prevent a sure goal.
But Slafkovsky helped him out a lot and the footage is making the rounds on the web right now.
The young Slovakian gave a good push with his stick to Kovacevic, who managed to get there to block the play.
The strength of the push clearly helped Kovacevic, as you can see on this sequence:
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Very impressive!
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