I worked a night job at the time so I never got to watch the game. This video was awesome. Perfect song with great editing. The picture of the jump into the team after the tieing goal would make a perfect poster.

Just hear for my annual gopher hockey favorite memory. Showing my two year old daughter what gopher hockey truly is

I get the chills every time I watch this video. Such great memories. Go Gophers.

What a year, wish I could have been on this team. Played with a lot of those guys but effed up my high school career. Every MN hockey kids dream is to do just what these guys did for the maroon and gold.

listened to this game on the radio , now watching this video gets better every time i watch it what a great video n song .. M .I.N.N.E.S.O.T.A !!!

M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A! I was there and get chills at that point

152 thousand views and I think 1000 are me over the years

Pohls snipe is legendary. Just a filthy snipe!

This was a great game especially on our home ice.

Goosebumps every time

To this day....still the greatest hockey game I have ever seen.Go Gophers!!!!!

Just introduced my 6-year-old son to the Mighty Ducks movie and watched it myself for the first time in over 25 years, and heard this song on the closing credits. I was like “Hey, this is the song from the Gophers championship video!” (and now it all makes sense)

Been coming back to this video since you posted it. Jordan Leopold & Pat O'Leary were friends of my big sister, and I remember watching this game in a Plymouth basement like it was two weeks ago. Thank you for your amazing editing on this

one of the best days of my life still get goose bumps

truly one of the best sports videos on youtube with the best possible song. well done. and to this day this is the most exciting hockey game i've ever seen.

WOW! Awesome video, I got chills!! I was at Stub and Herbs watching this game and the bar was packed. When that OT goal went in, the place erupted, beer everywhere, pandemonium. Incredible.

i watch this once a week just to keep my hopes high

The highlight of my sports watching life!

I watched this game with two former roommates. We went crazy when the Gophers won the game. We jumped up out of out chairs and cheered. One of those roommates was my best friend Tim. He passed away in '08 from a congenital heart disease. Every time I watch this video it reminds me of him and how we high fived and cheered after the win. A simple hockey game I know.. but what a great memory. What can I say? We're from Minnesota... the State of Hockey!

The loudest sound I have ever heard in my life. The Minnesota chant after Koalska's goal was absolutely deafening.

Whenever I want to feel good about Minnesota hockey I just watch this video! So damn cool!!!!

I will never forget being at this game. For as long as I live, and I live to remember, that this will be the memory of a life time. So long ago and I can only remember the passion as if it were last night. This is the most exciting game I'll ever go to. GO GOPHERS!! (:

I've seriously watched this 15 times. Whenever i'm in a bad mood this just cheers me up. Go Gophers!

been watchin this vid since i was 8... remember watching the game too

I remember watching this game with my cousins and my dad. We get season tickets to the gophers. What an awesome night. Unforgettable, you will never find another team like that.

The one Minnesota championship I have since in my 33yrs of life.

Coming from a bulldogs fan this was a great video what emotion never gets old

I love this team so much I have a signature from the whole roster

Whenever I'm having a bad day I watch this video. It never fails to put a smile on my face.

To this day 05/07/22 I watch this video to feel MN 😤 pride. Go Wild!

Lets go Goph! Bring another one home!!! Ski-U-Mah!!!

2021 let's do it again boys!

I was a shit faced freshman in college, yet i still remember most of this game

Who's still here to celebrate one of the greatest moments in Gophers hockey history?!

This only falls behind Kirby Pucketts game winning homer and the Twins winning the World Series in 91 (I was only 2 in 87 cant remember any of it) as best sports moment in my life. Love it. Lets go Gophers, lets ride Kangas to a National Championship. But even if we dont win this team has shown a lot of heart this year. Plus next year we return most our players plus Jordan Schoeder and Aaaron Ness headline a gret recruiting class. Go Gophs!!!

I have goosebumps from start to finish. And even a bit beyond..

I was pretty little when they won this, but I was still a die hard fan (I was in 2nd grade). The two things I remember most about this game were the score was 4-3 and Matt Koalska jumped over the boards at the end. It's always been my dream to be a gopher hockey cheerleader. The gophers are definitely a team worth cheering for, and this shows it!

i was a freshman that year. season ticket holder with my roommate and two other guys in the dorm room. absolutely epic. then, out to university ave to witness the riots - anybody who was anybody was there! SKI U MAH!

that was an awaome game! i remeber freaking out when they scored to tie it with less than 1 min. left

One of the greatest memories in my life and easily the best hockey game I've seen at any level!!! I think we'll hear Wally scream, "THE GOPHERS WIN! THE GOPHERS WIN!", once again this year! SKI U MAH!!

Really good job putting this together. Love the integration of photos with the video. Nice work.

everytime i watch this video my heart races

Still bring tears to my eyes.

that was the best game i've ever been to. Johnny Pohl's shot was perfect, right off the pipe then in. Matt Koalska's goal was great too, he shot it and it went through about 8 guys and found the back of the net.

Greatist gopher hockey game of the decade

As a Sioux fan, I am glad that a team from hockey's heartland won this game.

@MegaTaco33 I know, I totally got some when the announcers started screaming when we scored in OT! Oh man some good memories..

Greatest video of alltime!

Pure genius by Lucia to call a timeout there. I hate to say it being a Gopher fan but another team this year reminds me of this 2002 team...THE WISCONSIN BADGERS. I know fellow Gopher fans, I hate to say it, but they do. They have a Hobey contender at defense like the Gophs did with McBain, plus their team is built on defense with McBain,McDonaugh, and Gardiner, remember Martin,Ballard,Leopold...See the similarities, and have just enough offense to win, plus a good goalie who can get hot.

man i love this video

I get the chills every time I watch this... to damn cool... I wish the Gophers were better this year!

I remember that 3rd period goal like it was yesterday, hardest I ever cheered!

Best hockey game i've ever seen

to be playing peewee hockey in minnesota with both the gophers and the wild doing extremely good was amazing. oh childhood

Minnesota Hockey is the best! North Stars, Gophers, Wild...nothing like it in the world!!! Love Wally Shaver's call!

yahoo!!!!!

Now I remember why I love Gopher hockey!

Just remember, the ground squirrels are still one National Championship behind The Badgers of Wisconsin! Go Bucky!

Was at this game. Near side far blue line to the game winner and tying goal, about row 21 of LL. Get choked up thinking about this game. :)

This Video is AWESOME!!! Great Song

I was there. Greatest game ever

my cousin aaron miskovich graduated a year before this, it sucks he couldn't be a part of it.

Best....memory....ever

my favorite video. if you still have original footage it would be nice to re-upload at a higher resolution..awesome job & fits the song soooo well! Thanks for this, just never gets old.

Thnks!!!

i was at the game... it was sick... front row seats!!!!!

My favorite Minnesota Hockey moments: High School: North St. Paul beating Hill Murray in OT 2005 Section Quarterfinals NHL: Wild beating Colorado in OT 2003 Game 7 NCAA: Gophers beating Maine in OT 2002 National Championship

My dad was at the semi finals for the Gophers #Go gophers

That must've been the loudest rouser chant ever.... I wish I could have been there!

Look at young Lucia

i remember those days that was when we excepted nothing less than the gophers being ranked number 1

Beast!!!!!!!!!

So do I. The straight up chills...

ive been in the locker room and met mostly everyone on that team

absolutely.

I love Wally Shaver's reaction during the game winner. "The GOPHERS WIN! The GOPHERS WIN!"

@titangirl2013 I was there to. Your parents are right. Loudest I have ever heard the X get....and that includes Wild playoff games (season ticket holder) and even concerts! The place was electric that night. What made it so much more special is how QUIET it was, down a goal...58 seconds left. The place might as well of crumbled to the ground when the game was tied late. Simply epic, a night I will never forget.

@mankatowestgolf Agreed brother. Sometimes I find myself watching it like 5 times in a row. Twas a magical ride that year. Will never forget it. Hopefully they get anot Nat Champ. soon!

Good choice for the song: "Winning It All" by The Outfield.

My Cousin graduated a year before they won. His name is Aaron Miskovich number 27

BEST team ever right there!! i remember watchin this watchin this back in 02 i loved that season i remember sometimes when the puck was gettin jammed infront of our net and i think pohl and leopold would count to 3 and lift the net up to get the whistle lol... good times

C'mon Gophers, bring another one home this season.

Let's Go!

greatest hockey game that has happened since the 1980 olympics

I recall watching this game and believe the Shutte player from Maine (the one that did the 'shhhhhh" gesture to the crowd after he scored his 1st goal) was the one that got called for the pentatly in OT. Also I think Grant Potulny, who had the game winner, was the only non-Minnesotan on the gophers that year. Thank goodness Lucia dind't keep that same policy of "ONLY MN players" that Woog did

Amazing game! Hauser...

I remember watching this when i was 14 and listening to Wally Shaver and Lou Nanne instead of those biased ESPN announcers. One of the greatest sports moments of my life!

GOPHERS R THE BEST TEAM EVER AND ALWAYS WILL BE !

That was the best

goin to the wcha champioship AWW YEAH! GO GOPHERS!

GO GOPHERS!!

Biggest win in the history of the gophers

Here's to an even better season next year!

I love the this video! I love how big of homers the announcers are too! Aren't they the ones that do the Gophers usually?

Lets Go boys, win it again!!!!

The greatest hockey game ever. I watched this game with 15 of my closest friends and I can still feel the intensity of the room. Fucking Sioux suck.. And so does St. Cloud. Come on Gophers, The championship is there for the taking.. SKI-U-MAH..... M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A minnesota minnesota yeeeaaahhh GOPHERS

Not a gophs fan ( i heart the huskies ha ha) but dude VERY well done vid!!! favorited and 5 stars

I have good news I just got done watching the big ten semifinals and..... THE GOPHERS ARE HEADING TO FACE THE BADGERS IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!!!

AGREED!!!

And here's a shot....WHHHAAAAA the gophers tie it up! M-I-N-NE-S-O-T-A