This is an incredible story. Due to a rare set of circumstances, Chicago accountant Scott Foster got called in to United Center in Chicago to act as an emergency goaltender. Basically, he was in the building to act as goalie for either team in case of injuries to the starting goalies.
About six minutes into the third period, starting goaltender Colin Delia goes down and he gets the nod.
Foster played 55 games for Western Michigan from 2002-06. He is the first emergency goaltender to play in an NHL game since Jorge Alves, an equipment manager for the Carolina Hurricanes, played eight seconds in a 3-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Dec. 31, 2016.
He’s an accountant with college hockey experience. Experience from 15 years ago. Crazy, right?
Watch the video to see this unfold. My favorite part is at the end of the game when he is mobbed by his new teammates.
I love hockey.
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Thank you for posting. This was wonderful to watch.
As someone who played goalie once in intramural college hockey, I can really appreciate his effort.
I got destroyed.
It must be the pretzels!
It’s because it’s an easy position.
Okay, I am really glad we are not all in the same room! I am only kidding!
That was incredible, good for him, a night he will never forget. I hope he gets to play again!
i tried watching this embedded clip in iOS full screen mode on my ipad pro 10.5”, but youtube won’t let me, claiming my browser doesn’t support it.
blog admins — is this normal behavior? are you able to toggle your many embedded youtube clips into full screen mode on an ipad??
Any word on how many Foster jerseys they have sold?
Yeah, that was definitely one of the more dickish things I’ve read this year. 🙂
A team that knows how to support a goalie well can take a lot of the pressure off and good positioning is worth a lot in net.
Terribly click-bait headline. He wasn’t “pulled off the street,” he was there for just such a case. Rare though it may be, it is all logical.
And I played goalie back in the day. Good defense can mitigate the possibilities of him getting a lot of shots on goal.
Go Flames!
What’s funny is that Gruber claims that this could happen in no other sport, except some random 35 year old dude became a pitcher in the majors after trying out because he promised his players that he would.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morris
And a panicked defence can make things so, so much worse. 🙂