Yesterday the Carolina Hurricanes played the Toronto Maple Leafs. James Reimer started for the Canes in net and went down with an injury. His backup Petr Mrazek replaced him and went out to play the puck and got crushed by Kyle Clifford. At every NHL game, there's an emergency goalie in case one team's goalies go down.
Enter 42 year old David Ayres.
David hasn't played any level of professional hockey. He played in the lower junior league a long time ago. He's practiced with the Toronto Marlies and Leafs. He's also the Zamboni drive for the Marlies.
The Leafs are down 4-2 when he comes in. Everyone watching the game thinks it's over. The first two shots on Ayres go in. The Hurricanes tighten up their defense and Ayres doesn't let another puck into the back of the net. The Hurricanes end up winning 6-4. Ayres gets his first NHL win and is the oldest player to do so.
The Hurricanes are selling shirts with his name and number on it. I might get a jersey instead because history doesn't happen every day.
Ron Rivera or Riverboat Ron, was the head coach of the Carolina Panthers for eight seasons. He was fired by the team after a slow start last season and is now the head coach in Washington. After eight seasons, you accumulate lots of stuff and he probably doesn't want to take it with him to Washington. He's having a yard sale tomorrow (Saturday). More info here and here.
With the Super Bowl coming up, I went to TJ Maxx, Burlington Coat Factory, and Ross, looking for 49'ers or Chiefs merchandise. I found a few 49'ers sweatshirts at TJ Maxx and that was it.
On a last-minute venture, I decided to go to Marshalls, looking for anything related to the Big Game. Didn't find anything thing related to it but found something else rare.
