Radek Faksa’s first goal of the season may have set a record for the longest goal in franchise history.



The puck traveled 183 feet from the left corner of the Stars defensive zone into an empty net on the other side of the arena, sealing a 5-3 Dallas Stars victory against the Anaheim Ducks. After Faksa won a battle for the loose puck and fired the curling shot, his back slammed into his own end boards, about as far as you can possibly be from the opposing net without sitting in the stands.



The 183-foot journey might not be a record, shot location data hasn’t been tracked meticulously enough for us to truly know. But dating back to the franchise’s first game in 1967 as the Minnesota North Stars, you’d be hard-pressed to find a shot that traveled that far.



Whether it’s a record or not doesn’t matter, and it’s not worth the effort to dig that deep for something so trivial. But it was a play that symbolizes what Faksa...