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Ex-Detroit Red Wings employee Al Sobotka 'devastated' after being fired for peeing in drain

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The lawyer for Al Sobotka, the popular Detroit Red Wings Zamboni driver fired for peeing in a drain, said he's struggling to deal with how his five-decade career has ended.

"Al is devastated by this," Deb Gordon told the Free Press on Wednesday. "He thought this was his family. It was his family since he was 17. He’s been with the Red Wings for 50 years. It was so important to him. It appears to me he’s just been unceremoniously dumped."