NHL teams carry two goalies on their roster. For every NHL game, the home team must have a guy in the stands who serves as the emergency third-string goalie for BOTH teams.
This dude was a local Toronto guy who drove the Zamboni for the Toronto junior team. He got a standing ovation from the Toronto crowd even though he came in and was the winning goalie for the VISITING team!
Yup. I didn't know about it :)
Wow i didn't catch that....that's even more impressive because living in Toronto he was very likely a Toronto fan as well as knowing all the Toronto players. The fact that he could set all of that aside is great.
And now that I think of it if he was always practicing with Toronto then he's probably saw all of their players moves multiple times and had to defend them multiple times. So kind of an advantage for him maybe in that situation.
NHL teams carry two goalies on their roster. For every NHL game, the home team must have a guy in the stands who serves as the emergency third-string goalie for BOTH teams.
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Learn something new every day, but I thought I’d never learn that.
> the home team must have a guy in the stands who serves as the emergency third-string goalie for BOTH teams <
Interesting. But if a team runs out of goalies, why can’t a member of that team just suit up as a goalie?