The Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament is upon us and one team that has punched their ticket to the Big Dance is Stillwater Area High School.

On Friday night, Stillwater faced Hill-Murray in the Class 2A Section 4 Final and the winning goal and the post-goal celebration will rank up there as best of the year.

With no goals through regulation, the teams went into overtime. It was there that the play began with a 125-foot saucer pass to Stillwater's Noah Cates, who then did it all himself with a spin-o-rama and a great drive to the net to earn the 1-0 victory.

Via Steve Pesek:

“I practice that all the time hoping it’s going to work and it did,” Cates told Minnesota Hockey Hub afterward. “It’s unbelievable.”

If you’re going to score a goal that sends your team to the state tournament at Xcel Energy Center for the second time in three seasons, well, that’s one heckuva a way to do it.

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