Man stops speeding hockey puck from hitting 4-year-old

Andrew Podolak acted quickly when a rogue puck left the rink and headed straight toward the child during a Cleveland Monsters game.

Asia Davis needed to find a hero, so she did what many do in this day and age: She turned to the internet.

Her mission: reunite with the man who put his body on the line to protect her son this past Thursday at a Cleveland Monsters hockey game at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

As seconds ticked away toward the end of the third period of the American Hockey League game, the intensity on the ice grew, Davis recalled. Sitting next to her was her friend, Makaila Smith, who began recording some of the scramble between the players.

In a case of being at the right place at the right time, Smith was recording as a rogue puck struck from the ice soared into the stands, heading straight toward Davis and her 4-year-old, Nasir.

“I don’t think I looked up until the puck was, like, already like past the glass and past the audience. And next thing I know, it was just screaming and I looked over and he kind of had his hand up in front of my son,” Davis recalled of the man who shielded Nasir.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-stops-speeding-hockey-puck-hitting-4-year-old-rcna147716

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