Key Highlights
- Any age after that, he wasn’t gullible enough to bite. And if you’d told him that the team he’d suit up for was based in his home state of Utah, he probably would have thought he was dreaming. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut it all came true. McIntyre, a 21-year-old goalie born and raised in Park City, Utah, has been the Mammoth’s practice goalie all season.
- He played for Park City High (where he won three state championships) before heading to the East Coast to play college prep hockey — a level that doesn’t produce many NHLers. He was watching “Scooby-Doo” in the bathtub of his Denver hotel room on Dec.
- 23 when he got a text telling him to head to the rink earlier than he normally does.
- Karel Vejmelka, the Utah Mammoth’s starting goaltender, was unsure whether he was fit to play. That meant McIntyre might get his first chance to dress in an NHL game. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHe hopped in an Uber and got to Ball Arena, where he found out he would indeed be dressing.
- The team presented him with an amateur tryout contract, at which point he sent a few quick text messages to family and friends. It was unlikely that he’d actually play in the game, but crazier things have happened.“It’s unreal,” McIntyre said nearly a week later when the team made him available to the media for the first time.
