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Cam Stevenson & his midget coach Andy Welsh talk about last Saturday.

“It was unfortunate what happened to Mitch but as soon as he went down, my heart sank,” said Stevenson, 16. “And I was like, ‘Is this actually happening?'”

“Whenever the move happened, word spread over to our side of the ice that Cam was in net,” said Kings midget rep coach Andy Welsh. “We continued practicing but it was not going so well. The guys’ heads were somewhere else too. The whole team went over and watched Cam play the last period and a half.

“When we went over to watch him in the second,he was getting bombarded with shots but he was working so hard. Pucks were finding him and it was enjoyable to watch.”

“It was definitely the fans,” said Stevenson of the moment that made it real. “Everyone was cheering so loud for me and that got me really excited and I didn’t want to let anybody down.”

“They were getting excited, me and my assistant coach were nervous for him too,” said Welsh. “We went down to the other end for the third period and when the Kings got those two goals in the third, it looked more and more like a win. The crowd was going wild.”

So did the players from the bench at the end of the game, piling off to mob their young goaltender who turned out to to be the story of the night. After the game, Kings interim head coach Brock Sawyer presented Stevenson with game puck.

Stevenson says he hopes to progress to the BCHL level with the Kings or another franchise within the next one to two years.

http://bchl.ca/stevensons-emergency-appearance-nets-w