TORONTO -- David Ayres was sitting in the stands with his wife at Scotiabank Arena when Carolina Hurricanes goalie James Reimer went down with an injury. The on-call emergency netminder in Toronto, ...

The NHL schedule makers cooked with this one. Exactly five years from the date, the Carolina Hurricanes and Toronto Maple Leafs are once again playing at Scotiabank Arena, where in 2020, emergency ...

David Ayres is a name that stokes fear in the hearts of Toronto Maple Leafs fans as he is the one who completely destroyed them in relief for the Carolina Hurricanes. Back in 2020, just weeks before ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- David Ayres will go down in hockey history for being the first emergency goalie to actually play for the visiting team. Since then he has been skating the media circuit as an ...

David Ayres was hitting the lowest point of his life — the lowest point, really, of any life. Having endured a kidney transplant and all the medical issues that come with it at 27, he was, several ...

Former Zamboni driver-turned-arena manager David Ayres became an immediate sensation when he pulled on the goaltending gear and took the ice in an NHL game on a Saturday night in Toronto and beat his ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)David Ayres is still adjusting to new-found stardom after winning a game as the emergency goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes. The 42-year-old Zamboni driver and kidney-transplant ...

Former Zamboni driver-turned-arena manager David Ayres became an immediate sensation when he pulled on the goaltending gear and took the ice in an NHL game on a Saturday night in Toronto and beat his ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - Part-time ice hockey goalie David Ayres had never been to North Carolina, but he arrived an instant statewide hero, was declared an honorary citizen by the governor, and was ...