Mike Legg

{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| name = Mike Legg

| image =

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|5|25|mf=y}}

| birth_place = London, Ontario, Canada

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lb = 194

| position = Right wing

| shoots = Right

| played_for = HIFK
KalPa
San Antonio Iguanas
Fort Wayne Komets
Lubbock Cotton Kings
Idaho Steelheads
Utah Grizzlies

| draft = 273rd overall

| draft_year = 1993

| draft_team = New Jersey Devils

| career_start = 1997

| career_end = 2003

}}

Mike Legg (born May 25, 1975) is a Canadian former ice hockey player. He is most famous for the Michigan goal, named in honor of one that he scored while playing for the University of Michigan, in a 1996 NCAA Tournament game against the University of Minnesota.

Legg scored his famous goal by picking the puck up onto his stick behind the net and wrapping it around into the top corner of the net. The goal was widely recognized around the hockey world; Legg was awarded "Goal of the Year" by Inside Hockey and the stick he used was donated to the Hockey Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=http://www2.jsonline.com/badger/hock/ncaafax326.html |title=50 years of college hockey |website=www2.jsonline.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310224230/http://www2.jsonline.com/badger/hock/ncaafax326.html |archive-date=10 March 2007 |url-status=dead}} Legg learned about the move from Bill Armstrong.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/100408_mike_legg_michigan_goal|title=The coolest goal ever scored in hockey|date=2010-04-08|first=Patrick|last=Hruby|publisher=ESPN|access-date=2011-05-18}}

Although drafted by the New Jersey Devils in 1993,{{cite news |last1=Sipple |first1=George |title=Michigan hockey recalls the Mike Legg goal, 20 years later |url=https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2016/03/24/michigan-hockey-mike-legg-goal/82232886/ |access-date=March 27, 2023 |work=Detroit Free Press |date=March 24, 2016}} Legg did not play for any NHL team. During his professional career, he played for HIFK and KalPa of the Finnish SM-liiga, as well as the ECHL's San Antonio Iguanas, Fort Wayne Komets, Lubbock Cotton Kings, Idaho Steelheads, and Utah Grizzlies.

Legg works as a firefighter in Burnaby, British Columbia.

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