Great Story of a Dream Realized for One Night

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Slickrock on Sunday, February 23, 2020 – 11:24 pm

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The Zamboni driver gets called into the game and gets the win in his first game. This is great. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carolina-hurricanes-zamboni-driver_n_5e52...

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Jazfish on Monday, February 24, 2020 – 01:24 am

Good for him. I bet he would have paid the 500 he was paid.

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heathentom on Monday, February 24, 2020 – 01:59 am

So there's a guy sitting in the stands at every NHL hockey game who isn't affiliated with either team ready to go in as goalie if needed?

Hockey is strange.

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Jazfish on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 11:46 am

So is the word zamboni. It seems to fit the story well.

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Slickrock on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 11:52 am

Hey, did ya see this guy on Colbert last night? Stephen talked about this and brought Ayers on to take him out of the monologue.  

Lance, the guy is also a maintenance worker for the arena. But on call for emergencies.   

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Herbal Dave on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 12:14 pm

It's sort of like having one of the grounds crew come in to close the 9th.

Wonder why they don't just make a member of the team put on the Goaltender's gear?  I've seen this happen in baseball when team's used up all their catchers.   I was at this game at the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore to see Tippy Martinez pull this off, one of the most bizarre and greatest things I ever saw in person:

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Martinez may be best known for picking off three Toronto Blue Jays at first base in one inning during the August 24, 1983 game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. The Orioles, having replaced both their starting catcher and his backup while rallying to tie the game in the ninth inning, entered the tenth with reserve infielder Lenn Sakata in the game at catcher. Three consecutive Blue Jays hitters reached first base and each one, thinking it would be easy to steal a base on Sakata, took a big lead. Martinez picked off all three baserunners, then became the winning pitcher when the Orioles won the game on Sakata's home run in the bottom of the tenth.