TORONTO - Zdeno Chara could hardly believe what had just unfolded.

Duncan Keith was in the same boat — at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum.

Chara and his Boston Bruins held a 2-1 lead late in Game 6 of the 2013 Stanley Cup final against Keith and the Chicago Blackhawks. A victory on home ice would ensure a winner-take-all finale back in the Windy City.

That script then flipped in dramatic fashion. The visitors scored twice in a jaw-dropping 17-second span to stun the Bruins 3-2 and claim the Blackhawks' second Cup in four years.

"Shocking for us," Chara recalled more than a decade later. "That's sports, that's life."

Keith, meanwhile, had just moments earlier been dreading a pressure-packed Game 7.

"It's never over until it's over," he said. "Special to do it against such a

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