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...highlights of period two included some more outstanding play from O'Connor, who had 17 saves in 20 minutes, and the most bizarre goal that anyone has ever seen, a goal that turned out to be the game-winner for Harvard...
What happened was that Turner's shot off the left side boards deflected off the shin guard of one of the referees, shooting into the zone toward the B.C. net. O'Connor, anticipating that the puck was headed for the back boards, got caught going the wrong way, and the puck just slid by him and inside the far post...
...Turner had picked up the puck at center ice and figured he'd bang it off the boards back into the Boston College zone. Bob O'Connor saw Turner hit it, decided it would caroom behind the net and moved out of the cage...
...then suddenly--for the rest of their lives neither Turner nor O'Connor will ever know exactly how--the puck was in the net and the Harvard hockey team was on its way to the Boston Garden...
...always say that 50 percent of goaltending is anticipation." O'Connor said in the funereal B.C. locker room after the game, "and I anticipated that the puck was going behind the net. I didn't see it, but the guys told me that it deflected off the referee's shinguard...