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‘We needed something and someone to cheer for’: MPs honour David Ayres’ unthinkable win

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Conservative MP John Brassard, pictured at a February 2017 charity hockey game at the Canadian Tire Centre, gave tribute in the House on Feb. 24 to unlikely star David Ayres. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

February 26, 2020

After David Ayres' unlikely victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto-area MPs honoured the netminder's Cinderella night. “David Ayres will not win the Vezina Trophy, but he captured the country's imagination at a time when we needed something and someone to cheer for,” Conservative ...

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