36-Year-Old Accountant Called In As Emergency NHL Goalie — And He Crushed It.
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Scott Foster is a 36-year-old accountant who lives in Oak Park, Ill. More than a decade ago, he was goalie on Western Michigan's hockey team.
These days he plays in a rec league at a rink called Johnny's Icehouse.
That rink is just a few blocks east of the arena where the Chicago Blackhawks play — and where, on Thursday night, Foster became a legend.
Just before faceoff against the Winnipeg Jets, the Blackhawks tweeted that they had signed Foster to an amateur tryout contract to be the team's emergency backup goaltender: EBUG, for short.
Then fill-in goalie Collin Delia, making his own NHL debut, had to leave the game in the third period due to cramping. »