In the midst of all the fathers making the “Dads Trip” for the Carolina Hurricanes is a familiar looking, if younger face.
It’s Ric Alves, the fraternal twin of Jorge Alves, the Canes’ equipment manager who became the talk of the NHL after his appearance in net, for 7.6 memorable seconds, as the Carolina goaltender on New Year’s Eve.
Ric Alves likes to says he’s Jorge’s younger brother by, oh, two minutes. He looks so much like Jorge that Ric jokes, “If you just take Jorge and stretch him out a few inches, you’ve got me.”
Ric Alves is as stunned as the rest of the family, and many back in their hometown of Stoughton, Mass.