TORONTO — The NHL’s goalie cop is working a different case these days.
Clutching a binder in one hand and a measuring tool he picked up for $9.99 at Princess Auto in the other, Kay Whitmore walked unannounced into the visiting dressing room at Air Canada Centre recently and spotted Buffalo Sabres goaltender Robin Lehner undressing in his stall.
“Uh oh, here comes my nemesis,” Lehner said. Whitmore laughed.
Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth.
The former NHL goaltender-turned-equipment inspector might be on a quixotic crusade to shrink the sumo-sized masked men who have spent their careers bulking up and bending the rules, but he’s not here out to bust Lehner.