NEW YORK — The resume has some interesting stops, from a small town in southern Quebec to a maritime province off New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to one of the more mountainous states in this country.
Maxime Lagace has played the part of rising hockey goalie through the junior and minor ranks, often the beneficiary of living among some fairly picturesque islands and villages and swaths of wilderness.
He also played in Bakersfield, Calif., but not even that hardened his resolve enough to prepare him for the terror of this sight: John Tavares on a breakaway.
“I just wanted to stop the shot,” Lagace said.