The Michigan Wolverines ice hockey team celebrated their 1996 national championship team by bringing out three former stars to take shots from the far hash marks on the Score-O and did they ever put on a show.
First up was former NHL goaltender and two-time NCAA national champion Marty Turco, one of the best puckhandling netminders in the league during his time with the Dallas Stars.
Then came Brendan Morrison, 1997 Hobey Baker award winner and one-third of the Vancouver Canucks‘ “West Coast Express” line, who buried his shot to the delight of the crowd.
But the star of the whole spectacle was Mike Legg, who is best known for his lacrosse-style goal against the University of Minnesota in 1996.
Rather than take a standard wrist shot, the London, Ont., native paid tribute to his famous goal by picking the puck up on his stick and launching it down the ice. Somehow, it went in, earning Legg a victory ride on the shoulders of Turco and Morrison.
The second-intermission show might have given the Wolverines a bit of a spark, as they defeated Michigan Tech 4-3 off a last-minute goal from Will Lockwood.
For more information on Legg’s famous goal, Yahoo’s Sean Leahy wrote an in-depth feature here.