Tom Wilson helped teach Zoe how to play hockey when she was 7. Now she’s honoring him on her first goalie mask. ‘I want to be like him.’
Outside of Washington DC, Tom Wilson is considered the most hated players in the NHL, but for people who’ve experienced him in real life, he’s anything but a bad guy.
For Zoe Laming, a junior at Minnesota’s Gentry Academy, Wilson is literally the reason why she first started playing hockey.
To honor Wilson’s influence on her budding sports career, Zoe had the Capitals forward put on her goalie mask for her first season of high school hockey.
It’s the first time (that we know of) that Wilson has ever been honored on a player’s bucket.
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