Scott Foster (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Scott Foster Ice hockey player
Date of birth 17th January 1982
place of birth Sarnia , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 84 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Career stations
2002-2006 Western Michigan University
2018 Chicago Blackhawks

Scott Foster (born January 17, 1982 in Sarnia , Ontario ) is a Canadian accountant and ice hockey goalkeeper who played about 14 minutes of a game for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League on March 29, 2018 as a short-term substitute goalkeeper .

Career

Scott Foster played in his youth for the Petrolia Jets in his native Ontario before he moved to Western Michigan University for the 2002/03 season. There he ran for two years in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), a college league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In 54 missions he conceded a goal average of well over 3.0 and a catch rate of under 88%. In the 2004/05 season he lost his regular seat to Daniel Bellissimo and then only played one game for the team during the 2005/06 season. Subsequently, the Canadian initially only guarded the gate in the hobby or amateur area, while he worked as an accountant in Chicago .

On March 29, 2018, the Chicago Blackhawks played a home game against the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League (NHL) , with the proposed first goalkeeper Anton Forsberg injured shortly before the game. While regular goalkeeper Corey Crawford had been injured since December 2017 and Jean-François Bérubé and Jeff Glass could not be brought to Chicago by the farm team in the short term, the Blackhawks signed Foster at short notice as part of an amateur tryout contract. This short-term commitment of replacement goalkeepers ( Emergency Backup Goaltender ) is not unusual and usually occurs several times per season. Most of these players are designated for this role on a long-term basis, so Foster has already spent several home games of the Blackhawks at the United Center for this purpose .

The game against the Winnipeg Jets finally began Collin Delia , who also made his NHL debut at this point. Delia blocked 25 of 27 shots before he was also injured with just over 14 minutes remaining, so Foster replaced him. Chicago was already leading 6-2 at this time, but nothing changed at this score afterwards, as Foster parried all seven shots fired on his goal. It thus became the first Emergency Backup Goaltender to be deployed since Jorge Alves in December 2016, although it only stood on the ice for a few seconds and without the starting goalkeeper being injured.

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Victories Defeats OT Minutes GT Shutouts Sv% GTS
Regular season 1 1 0 0 0 14th 0 0 100.0 0.00
Playoffs - - - - - - - - - -

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tracey Myers: Emergency goalie has 'ton of fun' playing for Blackhawks. nhl.com, March 30, 2018, accessed March 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ Dan O'Leary: We need backup! Tales of emergency goalies in NHL. nhl.com, December 12, 2016, accessed March 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Foster, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnia , Ontario , Canada