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Few hockey fans have come close to repeating the success of celebrated Detroit brothers Pete and Jerry Cusimano, who at a playoff game in 1952 hurled an octopus onto the ice, spurring their beloved Red Wings to a Stanley Cup while starting a tradition that lives to this day.
Who, for example, threw the lobster into the ice at a Bruins’ game in 1995? Who, in 2006, chucked the inaugural Alberta beef steak onto the ice at an Oilers game? Even the owner of the first fedora that sailed onto a sheet of ice in celebration of a three-goal performance — the now-infamous hat trick — is lost to the quotidian sands of time.
So let hockey’s historians not forget, then, the name Jamey Boudreau. A 36-year-old Orléans pharmacy technician, Boudreau was 14 rows from the ice at the Canadian Tire Centre, in Section 107, just after 9:30 p.m. on March 15, 2015 — the Ides of March — when he airmailed a plain hamburger over the glass in honour of Senators goalie Andrew “The Hamburglar” Hammond, who had just backstopped Ottawa to a 2-1 shootout victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.
It was a bold and calculated move that might have gone totally unnoticed had Hammond, as his teammates leapt onto the ice to congratulate him, not stopped to bend over, pick up the burger and wave it to the nearly 18,000 fans cheering on his Cinderella story.
Jamey Boudreau shows the form he used to throw a hamburger onto the Canadian Tire Centre ice for goalie Andrew Hammond after he won in a shootout against the Philadelphia Flyers March 15.
Boudreau did not witness Hammond’s acknowledgement first hand, though, as he was already making his way from his seat up to the arena’s concourse, where his fiancée, Michelle Boswell, waited. Though presumably willing to soon stand by her man for better or worse, she refused that night to remain by his side as he launched a $9 Aramark burger into hockey history.
“She knew I was going to do this and was thinking it might fall apart on the way in and make a mess among the spectators, or just land on the ice and not be noticed.”
He says he knew the risk he was taking, and was prepared to be escorted from the building by security and possibly banned from Sens games for a year.
“Fortunately, it worked out.”
What surprised Boudreau most, perhaps, was that his was the only burger thrown that night. In the days leading up to the game as Hammond’s improbable streak continued, HFBoards, an online hockey discussion forum, was full of chatter about the possibility of a group burger toss.
He’d decided on his course of action a couple of days before the game, securing two 100-level seats that would put him close enough to successfully hit the ice with his burger. He’d decided on a plain burger with no dressing, and removed the wrapper so his missile wouldn’t be confused for garbage.
In the dining room of his Orléans home, Boudreau opens a drawer and removes what he calls “the circumstantial evidence” — a paper burger wrapper, which he hopes Hammond might one day sign, and a receipt for a burger bought at Canadian Tire Centre at 8:40 that night, toward the end of the second intermission. He kept the ungarnished burger in his jacket pocket for the remainder of the game — through the third period, overtime and shootout. He cites the good fortune of the hour or so that the burger spent pressed tightly in his pocket for it not falling apart in flight or upon landing.
“I didn’t expect him to pick it up, though. That’s what made this whole thing.”
That said, Boudreau is thankful the Sens won their next game, a 2-1 overtime win Tuesday against the Carolina Hurricanes. “I didn’t want his first loss to come right after I threw it. I didn’t want it to be the Curse Burger.”
The Senators next face the Boston Bruins at home on Thursday, and the team is handing out Hamburglar masks to the first 10,000 fans. As for the rest of the Senators’ and Hammond’s unexpected run to the playoffs, Boudreau is keeping his fingers crossed, but isn’t expecting great things.
He points to a post he put up on HFBoards in the wee hours of the morning after Hammond’s first game with Ottawa this season, on Feb. 16, when he replaced injured starting goalie Robin Lehner in a losing cause: “Contrary to logic and popular opinion,” Boudreau wrote, “Hammond will take the league by storm and spearhead an incredible winning streak for the Senators. We will still fall short of the playoffs but next year Hammond is a Vezina (trophy) candidate and the Sens make a deep playoff push.”
An illustration by Rocket 57’s Marc Audet.
bdeachman@ottawacitizen.com
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Who, for example, threw the lobster into the ice at a Bruins’ game in 1995? Who, in 2006, chucked the inaugural Alberta beef steak onto the ice at an Oilers game? Even the owner of the first fedora that sailed onto a sheet of ice in celebration of a three-goal performance — the now-infamous hat trick — is lost to the quotidian sands of time.
So let hockey’s historians not forget, then, the name Jamey Boudreau. A 36-year-old Orléans pharmacy technician, Boudreau was 14 rows from the ice at the Canadian Tire Centre, in Section 107, just after 9:30 p.m. on March 15, 2015 — the Ides of March — when he airmailed a plain hamburger over the glass in honour of Senators goalie Andrew “The Hamburglar” Hammond, who had just backstopped Ottawa to a 2-1 shootout victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.
It was a bold and calculated move that might have gone totally unnoticed had Hammond, as his teammates leapt onto the ice to congratulate him, not stopped to bend over, pick up the burger and wave it to the nearly 18,000 fans cheering on his Cinderella story.
Jamey Boudreau shows the form he used to throw a hamburger onto the Canadian Tire Centre ice for goalie Andrew Hammond after he won in a shootout against the Philadelphia Flyers March 15.
Boudreau did not witness Hammond’s acknowledgement first hand, though, as he was already making his way from his seat up to the arena’s concourse, where his fiancée, Michelle Boswell, waited. Though presumably willing to soon stand by her man for better or worse, she refused that night to remain by his side as he launched a $9 Aramark burger into hockey history.
“She knew I was going to do this and was thinking it might fall apart on the way in and make a mess among the spectators, or just land on the ice and not be noticed.”
He says he knew the risk he was taking, and was prepared to be escorted from the building by security and possibly banned from Sens games for a year.
“Fortunately, it worked out.”
What surprised Boudreau most, perhaps, was that his was the only burger thrown that night. In the days leading up to the game as Hammond’s improbable streak continued, HFBoards, an online hockey discussion forum, was full of chatter about the possibility of a group burger toss.
He’d decided on his course of action a couple of days before the game, securing two 100-level seats that would put him close enough to successfully hit the ice with his burger. He’d decided on a plain burger with no dressing, and removed the wrapper so his missile wouldn’t be confused for garbage.
In the dining room of his Orléans home, Boudreau opens a drawer and removes what he calls “the circumstantial evidence” — a paper burger wrapper, which he hopes Hammond might one day sign, and a receipt for a burger bought at Canadian Tire Centre at 8:40 that night, toward the end of the second intermission. He kept the ungarnished burger in his jacket pocket for the remainder of the game — through the third period, overtime and shootout. He cites the good fortune of the hour or so that the burger spent pressed tightly in his pocket for it not falling apart in flight or upon landing.
“I didn’t expect him to pick it up, though. That’s what made this whole thing.”
That said, Boudreau is thankful the Sens won their next game, a 2-1 overtime win Tuesday against the Carolina Hurricanes. “I didn’t want his first loss to come right after I threw it. I didn’t want it to be the Curse Burger.”
The Senators next face the Boston Bruins at home on Thursday, and the team is handing out Hamburglar masks to the first 10,000 fans. As for the rest of the Senators’ and Hammond’s unexpected run to the playoffs, Boudreau is keeping his fingers crossed, but isn’t expecting great things.
He points to a post he put up on HFBoards in the wee hours of the morning after Hammond’s first game with Ottawa this season, on Feb. 16, when he replaced injured starting goalie Robin Lehner in a losing cause: “Contrary to logic and popular opinion,” Boudreau wrote, “Hammond will take the league by storm and spearhead an incredible winning streak for the Senators. We will still fall short of the playoffs but next year Hammond is a Vezina (trophy) candidate and the Sens make a deep playoff push.”
An illustration by Rocket 57’s Marc Audet.
bdeachman@ottawacitizen.com
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