

The Buffalo Sabres hosted their annual Skills Challenge at the KeyBank Center on Sunday afternoon and the players treated their fans to quite the show. Like most shootouts tend to do during any skills competition, the shootout portion of the event brought out the creative side of some of the players.

Since it was all about having fun and showing the crowd a good time, the goalies switched things up during the competition and took on the offensive role. In his Sabres Skills Challenge debut, Carter Hutton put his hands on display and scored a pretty impressive goal while rocking all of his goalie gear.



At first it looked like the move was going to backfire and Hutton was going to lose control of the puck, but he made a quick recovery and ended up beating Linus Ullmark.

Hutton wasn’t the only first-year Sabre who put on a show in his Sabres Skills Challenge debut as Jeff Skinner went back to his figure skating days and busted out a bunch of incredible moves during his attempt.



Even though he didn’t end up scoring, that was super impressive. If he could somehow pull that off on a breakaway or during the shootout it would easily take home the Goal of the Year honour.

Sticking with the theme of the day, first-year Sabre Tage Thompson also scored an awesome goal during the event as he somehow managed to find the back of the net from his stomach.



Tage Thompson from the ground ‼️



This is all tied up! #SkillsChallenge pic.twitter.com/wTZMDJ9hSO — Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) January 6, 2019

It’s easy to see why the Sabres already have 50 points halfway through the season after finishing with just 62 points last season.

(H/T Instagram/buffalosabres)