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Flyers Goalie Makes Save of the Year with One Second Left to Play in Game

This save is spectacular.

Philadelphia Flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth made the save of the year, and sealed a win against the Minnesota Wild last night with a tick over one second left to play. Minnesota moved the puck from one side of the net to the other—going under one Flyers defenseman's stick and through a Wild player's legs on the way—and landed on the stick of Charlie Coyle. He had to pause momentarily to settle the puck, but still seemed to have plenty of time to deposit it into a wide open net. And then Neuvirth came out of nowhere, whipping around to block the puck with his stick.

It's so hard to tell whether it actually crossed the line or not—the clearest view we have shows that the puck is hovering over the line, but it does not seem ever fully to cross it, which is what's required for a goal. In one of the angles, you can see the puck hit Neuvirth's stick and then bounce straight down onto the ice, clearly in front of the goal line, before the goalie swallowed it up. As the broadcast notes, the views are not directly over the goal line, so that makes it even trickier but, come on, this has to be a save after all of that.

The referee behind the net immediately signaled no goal, and it was upheld on review. The Flyers held on for the final 1.6 seconds to win 3-2.