Ayres, a building operations manager, practice player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, practice player for the AHL team Toronto Marlies and sometimes zamboni driver, admitted afterwards to ESPN he was ...

On Saturday night, Dave Ayres was back in Scotiabank Arena, watching, waiting, standing by just in case of emergency. A week prior, Ayres had been summoned into an improbable situation: making his ...

TORONTO – A Zamboni driver lived out his dream of playing in the NHL when he was tapped by the Carolina Hurricanes over the weekend. Emergency backup goalie Dave Ayres made eight saves in relief of ...

Feb. 22, 2020. Where were you? David Ayres, a then 42-year-old buildings operations manager, was plucked from the stands at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto as the designated emergency back-up goaltender.

Dave Ayres was having a normal Saturday night with his wife watching the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes play the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena when Hurricanes goaltender James Reimer left the ...