NHL Playoffs Shock: How a Last-Second Goal and Draisaitl’s Controversial Stick Sealed the Golden Knights’ Fate
The goal was initially waved off with the ref thinking it didn’t cross the plane, but replay show it clearly hit the camera inside the goal. The result was a 4-3 Golden Knights win and a stunned Rogers Place crowd.
Per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the goal was the third-latest regulation game-winner in playoff history, behind only Nazem Kadri’s in 2020 (0.1 seconds left) and Jussi Jokinen’s in 2009 (0.2 seconds).
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Even Smith wasn’t sure what happened, as he told the “NHL on TNT” panel after the game:
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