from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Instead of celebrating the David Ayres story the way the rest of the continent has done in the wake of the Zamboni Driver’s Closeup Moment in Toronto on Feb. 22, the Oh-So-Serious NHL Cognoscenti would ban something like this from ever happening again.

They’re going to talk about formalizing and standardizing the emergency goaltender statute at the league general managers’ meetings, which commence Monday in Boca Raton, Fla. The GMs could perhaps issue a recommendation that NHL teams be mandated to add a third non-roster goaltender to the traveling party, who meets certain age and experience specifications and would go into a game if the club’s two roster goalies are incapacitated, as occurred with the Hurricanes last weekend.

The NHL usually gets this kind of coverage across the States when there is a stick-swinging incident or a case of coach-player abuse. In other words, hockey breaks the glass ceiling only for pretty bad news. Or, in this case, unique news like Ayres, the 42-year-old Zamboni driver and practice goalie for the AHL Marlies and Maple Leafs who recorded eight saves on 10 shots in 28:41 in the Hurricanes’ 6-3 victory over his NHL employers.

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