For some reason while watching last night’s game, I somehow missed this replay when they were showing Travis Zajac‘s tie-breaking goal in the second period last night.  It did seem like the puck bounced a little weird at the time, and the replay doesn’t so much explain it as much as it illustrates how weird it actually was.  Zajac clearly deflected it, but then the puck went off the post and looked to be heading out of the net before magically going back towards the net and in.

I’ve only seen a unprompted puck turn like that once before, in a highlight of some random Kings game a couple years ago (can’t remember whether the Kings were the ones shooting or not) but in that case the puck looked to be going in and stayed out.  This one went the other way and proved to be the decisive goal in what may be a life-saving stretch run.  If the Devils do indeed make the playoffs, one can point back to this moment and say destiny was on our side.