RICHMOND, Va. -- "Yep, there's this week's strip."
Not thirty seconds had passed since Tristan Jarry's shot found the back of the Lightning net Thursday night that I decided to shift the Cartoon Canon strip I'd been working on to the back burner, in favor of one memorializing the moment I'd just witnessed. A little soon, sure... but goalie goals are just the sort of rare, quirky and entertaining happenstances that I love to focus on in my hockey comics, and considering that had Ken Wregget, Jean-Sebastian Aubin, Tomas Vokoun or some other Penguin of the past had scored an empty-netter, I would surely have centered a strip on it years ago... so why wait?
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