I want to see the David Ayers movie

The Marlies’ Zamboni Driver becomes the emergency call up goalie for Carolina and wins the game.

Carolina Hurricanes emergency goaltender David Ayres skates a lap after being named the game’s first star after they beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6–3 in Toronto on Saturday. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)

It’s the thing all us guys who were never good enough for our hockey career to go anywhere dream of. A chance to get into an NHL game and then play well enough to win.

David Ayers is actually employed by the Toronto Maple Leafs organization. He’s the Zamboni driver for their AHL affiliate, the Toronto Marlies, and he is a guy who straps on the pads from time to time to fill in for the professional goalies when they are off doing something else. That means he has faced Leaf and Marlie players in practices and scrimmages over the past few years. But even that didn’t prepare him for this.

The game starts out as expected. There is a lot of jump on both sides of the ice. Both the Hurricanes and the Maple Leafs are fighting for a playoff spot, and these are an important 2 points.

At the 3:07 mark of the first period, Carolina’s goalie, Mark Reimer has a defender pushed into him and he is slow…