Story is funny, comments that follow are hilarious.
http://deadspin.com/the-child-now-a-man-waited-10-years-for-this-day-of-r-1790623676
Cool story. Neat that the kid kept chasing his dream and made it to that level. Don't follow hockey all that much, but I'd have to think that the odds of making it to the bigs are about the same (maybe even less) as the other sports.