Watch a puck split in two!

By foxsports
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Posted: January 6, 2011, 6:40 p.m. CT

By DARRIN SALZMANN
FOXSportsWisconsin.com


Players and officials were seeing double during Tuesday night's USHL game between the Sioux City Musketeers and the Sioux Falls Stampede, and it wasn't because someone spiked the Gatorade.

Andrew Prochno, a 19-year-old defenseman who played at Minnetonka HS, fired a blue-line shot so hard off the post that the puck broke into two pieces. Zdeno Chara couldn't be reached for comment because even he's still scratching his head over it.

The shot has become a popular video on YouTube, with nearly 300,000 hits since being added on Wednesday. Splitting the puck in half is not unheard of during outdoor games, when the puck is especially frozen, but doing so indoors is extremely rare. Granted, pucks are usually kept frozen prior to games indoors, but it still takes an extraordinary shot to shatter a puck like Prochno did.

Prochno is committed to play at St. Cloud State, and he's expected to be selected in the NHL Draft this June. His lack of size might be a concern to some scouts, but this video should provide enough evidence of his thunderous shot.