{"id":1225135,"date":"2021-02-22T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1225135"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:25:52","slug":"one-year-ago-emergency-goalie-ayres-captured-caniacs-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1225135","title":{"rendered":"One year ago: Emergency goalie Ayres captured Caniacs&#8217; imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/one-year-ago-emergency-goalie-ayres-captured-caniacs-imagination\/19540593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/2020\/02\/24\/18973263\/73554-ayres-DMID1-5lye3k4km-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Siren Sounder: Ayres arrives at RDU Airport \"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was one year ago when one of the most unique moments ever became the feel-good story of sports we all dream about. Zamboni driver David Ayres took center stage as the first emergency backup goaltender to win a game for the Carolina Hurricanes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/one-year-ago-emergency-goalie-ayres-captured-caniacs-imagination\/19540593\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/one-year-ago-emergency-goalie-ayres-captured-caniacs-imagination\/19540593\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"One year ago: Emergency goalie Ayres captured Caniacs&#039; imagination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one year ago when one of the most unique moments ever became the feel-good story of sports we all dream about. Zamboni driver David&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canes","category-featured-stories","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910392,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225135\/revisions\/1910392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}