A hockey player for the Milwaukee Admirals was desperate to get home to Milwaukee from his game in Grand Rapids, Mich. to see the birth of his child after his wife had called him at 2 a.m. to tell him her water broke.
The first flight out of Grand Rapids to anywhere close would have got Pierre-Cedric Labrie to Chicago at 6:30 in the morning, and he’d still have had a 90-minute drive to Milwaukee.
There was also a very bad snow storm and no cab driver would take him. Other options were getting him nowhere, and time was wasting.
His last thought was to wake up his teammate Mark Zengerle, who spent two seasons playing in Grand Rapids.
“I was like, ‘Zenger, you played in GR (Grand Rapids) a couple years ago,’ ” Labrie told JSonline. “Do you know anybody that would let me borrow a car? Because I called taxi drivers, there’s a bad storm, no one…
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