42-year-old David Ayres, a Zamboni driver, stepped in after both regular goalies went down with injuries during Saturday's game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/28761372/zamboni-driver-42-stars-emergency-goalie-hurricanes
Cool story.
I was watching this on Saturday night. A great moment.
shareVery cool story for sure!
shareThe title of the thread reminds me of when Norm Macdonald hosted the Canadian Film Awards in 2016. In his oppening monologue, he said,
"...Never has there been such an assembly of great Canadian talent in a single location that did not have to be Zambonied first"
his stick made it to the hall of fame
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/david-ayres-hockey-hall-of-fame-1.5479982
I'm not even a Hockey fan and I applaud this developmentππππ
He was pretty awesome
I heard about this somewhere...
What's the opposite of nightmare? Daymare?? Cuz that's what this is. Amazing story, for sure.
What a weird rule that you can just bring someone from the stands like that.
Weird but awesome.