Ducks' Trevor Zegras steals opponent's stick out of desperation, unknowingly takes penalty

Trevor Zegras sure knows how to keep things interesting.

The Anaheim Ducks star made national headlines last year with his alley-oop assist to Sonny Milano, and he's provided plenty other viral moments with his masterful puck handling.

His skills put him on the cover of NHL 2K23. On Wednesday night, he lost a handle of his stick, so he literally took matters into his own hands.

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Zegras' stick broke while he was fighting for a puck with the Dallas Stars' Joel Kiviranta. Behind his own net, Zegras needed a stick to play defense. So, he stole Kiviranta's out of his hands.

"My stick broke, and I pinned him up against the glass. I was like, ‘You know what, I’m just gonna steal his stick,'" he said after the game.

There's just one problem with that, though. It's against the rules. But Zegras had no idea.

"Everyone knew it was a penalty but me, I guess," Zegras added.

The 21-year-old was assessed a two-minute penalty for an illegal stick.

"I tried to claim that I found it on the ice, which nobody was buying," he admitted.

The penalty didn't hurt the Ducks, though. They scored a 2-0 victory at the Honda Center in Southern California.

Zegras also dished out an assist in the game, his 19th of the season. He's also scored 10 goals and owns the NHL's second-best shootout percentage of all time. Despite his flashiness, the Ducks' 26 points (11-24-4) are the third-lowest in the NHL.

Tyler Boyd says he 'stayed on' Tee Higgins following Damar Hamlin incident

Tears flooded the field while Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin underwent CPR during Monday night's game — the NFL has since implemented plenty of mental health resources throughout the league.

Tee Higgins of the Cincinnati Bengals was the last person to make contact with Hamlin before he went into cardiac arrest. As thoughts and prayers went out to Hamlin, many made it a point to remind the Bengals receiver that he was not at fault for what happened.

One of those many was Higgins' teammate, fellow receiver Tyler Boyd.

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Higgins received "disrespectful" criticism, Boyd told reporters on Thursday, so he wanted to make sure his teammate was doing all right.

"Tee got a good head on his shoulders, and he kind of didn't take it too bad, but I just stayed on him because I know how much he felt after the game about it," Boyd said. "There was a lot of things on Twitter and social media, but I know it's not his fault at all. With all that politics and whoever's saying whatever they're saying is wrong for that. It's very disrespectful, I feel like, because Tee's a human being, too. It could've flipped. It could've been Tee. It's football, at the end of the day. I felt for him."

Boyd said he saw "everybody giving Tee crap," but he knew how badly Higgins felt, considering both receivers' relationship with Hamlin before Monday.

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"People don't really know the relationship that he was building with him. I brought him to my camp with D Hamlin, they became friends, and they probably knew each other prior to that because they was playing against each other," Boyd said, adding that the relationship between all three players was "always genuine."

Boyd said there was friendly trash talk from Hamlin to both Boyd and Higgins, and Boyd and Hamlin even planned to swap jerseys after the game.

Higgins, says Boyd, like everyone else, was happy to hear about the positive revelations in Hamlin's status.

"He's doing good now that Hamlin's OK, so that's the biggest thing," said Boyd.

Hamlin has woken up, responded to doctors' orders and communicated with them via writing, asking doctors who won Monday night's game.