During the late minutes of the game, the Toronto crowd kept chanting, "We want Punch, we want Punch," and Reggie Fleming, one of the Sabres' players, removed Imlach's hat and waved it to the crowd. In the stands, Imlach's wife Dodo was making more noise than the other 16,353 people. "She told me she would cause a commotion if we won," Punch said.