WINNIPEG, MB
After apparently being absolutely petrified of playing in Winnipeg tonight, New Jersey Devils goalie Connor Hellebyuck will instead be eating a Jets Dog from the stands while little Timmy Wiebe of the Rosenort Rosies takes the ice.
“Yeah, I guess we’ll have to go with the Mennonite farm boy,” said Devils head coach Sheldon Keefe. “He hasn’t started since the EM Cup, so he’s really been chomping at the bit to have a chance to play.”
The Devils claim that Hellebuyck actually wanted to play, but that Timmy Wiebe just gave them a better chance of winning tonight.
“We don’t want anyone to think that just because we’re playing a 13-year-old from Rosenort that somehow we’ve given up on the game,” said Keefe. “We’re in it to win it.”
After signing the Rosenort lad the New Jersey squad agreed to change their name to the Diewels.