This. This is what this game is all about, and we're all crying with him.
Garret Sparks is 22 years old. He's a kid from Elmhurst, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. In 2011, he was the Toronto Maple Leafs' penultimate draft pick - a seventh rounder, selected 190th overall, with just 21 kids taken after him.
You don't necessarily expect players from that position to even make the NHL to begin with. Sparks was the Guelph Storm's goalie at the time of his draft, and when he graduated juniors, he went ended up splitting time between the Toronto Marlies in the AHL and the Orlando Solar Bears in the ECHL.