Stop us if you've heard this before.
With 0.1 seconds left on the clock — yes, again — Michigan beat Western Michigan, this time in hockey, when Will Horcoff scored with a single tick left in regulation in a battle of top-five teams at Yost Ice Arena on Friday, Oct. 23.
Horcoff's goal gave No. 1 Michigan a 3-2 victory over No. 5 Western Michigan.
It was the second time in a month-and-a-half that Michigan beat Western Michigan with 0.1 seconds left on the clock, after the football team did it on a Hail Mary touchdown for a 13-12 win at Michigan Stadium on Sept. 5. That was a controversial finish, given clock discrepancies between what was seen on the stadium scoreboard and TV and what replay officials saw in putting that one second on the clock and giving Michigan one more play.
There was no controversy with Friday night's hockey finish, but there was just as much drama, as the Wolverines scored three third-period goals to stay undefeated at 7-0 on a night when Michigan paid tribute to the 1996 NCAA championship team before a sellout crowd of 5,800.
"Different sport, same ending," Michigan hockey's X account posted Friday night, with a fist-bump emoji.
UM beats WMU with 0.1 seconds left on the clock. Seriously. https://t.co/5hwlRgQhz8
— Tony Paul | Detroit News (@TonyPaul1984) October 24, 2026
Western Michigan (4-1) took a 1-0 lead in the second period when senior forward Zaccharya Wisdom scored.
Michigan answered back early in the third period, when senior forward Jayden Perron scored his 10th goal of the season. Twenty-two seconds later, junior defenseman Dakoda Rheaume-Mullen (Northville) scored to give the Wolverines a 2-1 lead.
Western Michigan senior forward William Whitelaw, who previously played at Michigan, got some revenge against his former mates when he scored the tying goal, a short-handed goal, at 8 minutes, 45 seconds into the third period.
It looked like the game was almost certainly heading to overtime — until Horcoff, a junior forward from Birmingham, fired off the improbable winner, beating Western Michigan sophomore goalie Quentin Miller over his right shoulder.
That set off a raucous celebration at Yost. Officials reviewed the goal to make sure it did, in fact, beat the clock, and they ruled that it, indeed, was good. This time, the officials' clock ruling was correct, unlike in football, when the Wolverines shouldn't have been allotted that final play, the NCAA later acknowledged.
Western Michigan and Michigan meet again in hockey Saturday, Jan. 30, on the football field (how fitting is that). They will play at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, in an outdoor hockey showcase.
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This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: It happened again! Michigan hockey stuns WMU with 0.1 seconds left