As it happened live, most people in the building and watching on TV missed it.



Jake Gardiner had belted what appeared to be his second goal of the night from the point, and it looked like Dallas Stars netminder Antti Niemi whiffed on it with his glove hand.



It looked like a bad goal.



“Look at this thing,” colour commentator Ray Ferraro said on the broadcast. “He just misses it. He’s got to have it. Gardiner’s got two.”



Gardiner, however, had the best view from ice level, and he knew his shot was headed into Niemi’s glove hand when it left his stick. When he saw it dip down and Niemi fooled, he suspected Auston Matthews, who was near the puck as it went to the net, had done something.



His face says it all afterward:



Gardiner chuckled about it in the dressing room after the game. He said it wasn’t the first – or the last – time that Matthews’ terrific hand-eye...