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Originally Posted by Textcritic
As I can recall, the play happened so quickly that no one even suspected it might have been a goal in the moment. You can see in the play-calls that neither the NBC nor the CBC crew thought anything different than that Khabibuklin made a great save; the players clearly didn't think it was a goal either. Speculation did not occur until the NBC crew went to see the replay, and I suspect it was around that point that the NHL also went back to look at their camera views.
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I was at the game and sitting behind (and to the side) of the Tampa net (not right behind- in the upper deck)
dude next to me had a camera with him, and was for some reason shooting pics as the play got close to the net, I actually remember thinking to myself right away- did that go in? of course buddy and I tried to make sense of his Zapruder quality film footage, but no dice- we were miles away and obscured by Khabibulin
Nevertheless other than a few oooos in the audience nothing to note (this is of course well before widespread smart phones) so those of us in the rink were none the wiser about what ultimately was shown on TV...until the intermission, where I recall enjoying a nervous moment or two with Bingo et al in the concourse and the cell phones started ringing with friends from home saying 'you won't believe what they just showed..'