Yakupov imitates Theo Fleury celebration

[Malkamaniac]

I don't even care that the goal was against the Kings. Yakupov isn't doing it to be arrogant. That dude goes 100 miles an hour at all teams it seems.

[Digitalgypsy66]

Uptight Canadians being uptight. If it had happen in Phoenix, with a non-Canadian team, we wouldn't be talking about it.

Disclaimer: I love Canada, and have Canadian relatives.

[DudeMan2766]

Rips Canadians -

"But dude its cool, some of my best friends are Canadian"

[Rocco]

He was excited to tie a game in the dying seconds. Cool move.

FWIW, here's Bill Guerin's tying goal with .4 seconds left. It looks like he does a swan dive, though he may have just tripped because he was a statue at that point.

[Rocco]

Actually, now that I think about it, I could understand why Edmonton fans might be ticked that Yakupov ripped off a move of a Calgary player. But why should anyone else care?

[Idoit40fans]

A good point was brought up a on NHL network radio on the way home. People used to always accuse the soviets of being emotionless machines, now they are showing personality and getting criticized.

[neophool]

awesome. given the circumstances perfecvtly appropriate celebration. pure emotion, love the way he just collapses after the slide.

[columbia]

We wouldn't want anyone to enjoy sports, so this must be condemned.

[Buccobruce]

Personally I loved it but reading people tweet best celebration for a game 3 goal ever was quite humorous.

[ffemtreed]

We need more of this stuff for big goals!

[dman66]

I liked it. No problem at all with it.

[mac5155]

That was awesome. Come on, tying it with 1.7 seconds left against the cup champs? That's great.

[DudeMan2766]

It was actually 4.7

1.7 I could see celebrating like that. But almost 5 solid seconds? Arrogant Solviet

[Pitts]

Yakupov pulled off pure sports terrorism.

And celebrated it like a BOSS!

[JS©]

Yakupov pulled off pure sports terrorism.

And celebrated it like a BOSS!

[Why Not Us]

Via HFboards

[bh]

He was excited to tie a game in the dying seconds. Cool move.
FWIW, here's Bill Guerin's tying goal with .4 seconds left. It looks like he does a swan dive, though he may have just tripped because he was a statue at that point.

That was back when we could come back in a game.

[Tim Thomasen]

We came back in plenty of games last year but whatever.

Anyways I have no problem with how Yakupov celebrated that goal. I'm the type of fan who thinks athletes should act like they been there, but when your a player who scores the game tying goal with less than five seconds left in the game againist the defending champs, it warrants an over the top celebration like that.

[Tim Thomasen]

Not that this is anything shocking, but Don Cherry didn't like how Yakupov celebrated the goal

[Tim Thomasen]

Not that this is anything shocking, but Don Cherry didn't like how Yakupov celebrated the goal