Rob Zepps journey leads to first NHL start at age 33

Posted by seestyle on August 4th, 2022

Welcome to the NHL, : At 33, Zepp will finally know how it feels to start a game in the world's best profe sional hockey league.

Zepp, recalled after starter was injured Friday, will face the Jets on Sunday in Winnipeg. This personal milestone comes because Roquan Smith Jersey the Flyers are giving a night off.

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Emery started Saturday in a 7-4 victory over the Maple Leafs. So Zepp gets the call.

After years in North American juniors and minor leagues, Zepp spent seven seasons in Germany's league. But NFL Chicago Bears Jersey with his career winding down, he heeded the call to give the NHL one more shot.

A solid preseason wasn't enough to crack the Mason-Emery combination, but it was enough to make believers of Flyers bra s.

When we sent him down, I told him, Rob you did everything you could accomplish in training camp and if someone goes down, we will feel comfortable bringing you up and Anthony Miller Jersey giving you a shot, told CSN Philly.

Zepp did nothing to di suade them during his solid play in 17 AHL games.

will be another red-letter day in an unusual career. In addition to nine seasons in European leagues, Zepp is among the few players to have been drafted twice by NHL teams. He was a fourth-round pick, 99th overall, of the Thrashers in 1999 and was called again in 2001's fourth round, 110th overall, by the Hurricanes.

The Thrashers became the Jets, so Zepp will make his first NHL start against the franchisethat drafted him nearly 16 years ago.

UPDATE: Zepp was a winner in his debut, stopping 25 of 28 shots in a 4-3 Flyers overtime Prince Amukamara Jersey victory. Philly's offense rallied from a 3-1 deficit.

"The way the guys battled in the third period was unbelievable," Zepp told reporters, according to The A sociated Pre s. "I appreciate this more than anybody knows. This is 26 years trying to get here. And to be able to get here Mitchell Trubisky Jersey and play and the game wasn't perfect, obviously, but to get the win at the end like that is incredible."

Zepp admitted he had to overcome a case ofnerves.

"As calm as you try to be, Allen Robinson Jersey when you wait this long and you get out on the ice, I'm not going to lie I didn't feel like myself in the first 10 minutes," Zepp told reporters. "I don't remember much from the first 10 minutes but I was able to get my feet under me and play more of my game."

Contributing: Tom Gatto