PHILADELPHIA – Wait! Hold everything!
The puck's in the net, the horn is going off, the scoreboard clock says 00:00, what in the heck just happened?
Even the hero couldn't believe the magic he created in a blink of the eye.
"I was like, 'Did that really happen?' " Justin Holl said.
Amazingly, it did, and now the Gophers get to play for the national championship Saturday night.
Did that really happen? A shorthanded goal that just barely beat the buzzer before overtime?
"Oh my gosh," senior Nate Condon said.
Exactly. Those three words provide the perfect description of the final moment of the 291st meeting between the Gophers and their bitter rival North Dakota in the national semifinals at Wells Fargo Center on Thursday night.