The National Hockey League’s Instagram caught the moment a B.C. kid got the souvenir of a lifetime.
The NHL posted a short video of Carter Cavan receiving a stick from his hockey idol Alex Ovechkin in the tunnel after the game. The boy yells “Yah! Thank you, Ovie!”
The Maple Ridge boy had just watched his hockey hero and the Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers 4-0 at Madison Square Gardens on Tuesday night.
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