It's an awesome story, but this guy wasn't some ex-Jr B/C, minor hockey wash-out, or started as an adult kind of typical beer leaguer. He was an NCAA starter at one point.
It's an awesome story, but this guy wasn't some ex-Jr B/C, minor hockey wash-out, or started as an adult kind of typical beer leaguer. He was an NCAA starter at one point.
He played 1 game in his final season in the NCAA in 2005!
Just made 7 saves in 14 mins of shutout action in 2018 in the NHL. There is no need to pour cold water on the story. The guy is an accountant who played a beer league game last night.
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Yeah the Hawks have been great at protecting their goal tenders this season...it was just a ridiculous comparison
Good god, man. Let me slow down for you.
This does not have to do with the Hawks play in general this year, it has to do with a god damn beer league goalie being protected enough by a NHL team that is equally #### as the Flames to stop 7 shots
One time when they had a good enough reason to try
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there is no doubt that the 'Hawks were using a collapsing D to protect the guy...and I am sure that the guy was 1st star just because of the novelty of it. But, he did face, at least. 4 quality shots, from bona fide NHLers, and turned them all back, and he did play 14 minutes, a not insignificant time for a team the caliber of the Jets to fill a net. Moreover, a 36 y.o. accountant, whose last significant game appearance was 13 years ago? Good story.
Best post game quote: Did you see Coach Q laughing when you walked by him to take the ice? Foster: "I would have been laughing too!"
Best TV guy quote: Pat Foley ('Hawk HOF announcer), as play rolled towards Foster for the 1st time: "I don't know if those are butterflies in his (Foster's) stomach, they are probably more like condors!"
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What a great story! "You just grind away in men's league and eventually you will get your shot" lol. I wonder how much he would have got paid for that as I assume he would have had to sign some contract for liability reasons. I wish more NHL players could give an interview like that as it was good stuff.
Kind of gives you a reminder that this is a game, and games should be fun.
After every awkward save the fans roared their approval and the Hawks slapped their sticks on the boards in appreciation. It was cool, Coach Q's look of complete bemusement when he stepped awkwardly on the bench made me chuckle.
This has been a hard season of hockey, I can live without the playoffs as long as its fun and it has moments, but in a season of far too few moments, and a appreciable lack of fun.
This was fun to watch, and seeing him shrug like "No big deal" at the one of the game while his inner self was shouting "Yes Yes Yes" and fist pumping to the point of a should dislocation. Then seeing the Hawks swarm around him to congratulate him was amazing. Seeing him step out as a Star of the game, warranted or not reminded us that, well.
That this is a game, the worlds not going to end without the playoffs, and all too soon the memories of this season are going to fade, but we'll remember Scott Foster for a while, because it was smile worthy.
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Beer League Emergency Goaltender named 1st Star in epic Hawks/Jets game
