By BOB SHRALUKA
WZBD.com
For the second consecutive season, Noah Volcan set off a a flurry of several thousand stuffed animals being tossed onto the ice at the Memorial Coliseum Saturday night as the Fort Wayne Komets held their 11h annual Teddy Bear Toss.
The traditional event has become a staple with many hockey teams throughout the U.S. and Canada. Fans bring new and gently-used stuffed animals to the game and when the home team scores its first goal, the animals are thrown onto the ice.
The Komets announced that they collected 3,002 of the “stuffies” Saturday night.
With players helping, the stuffed animals were pulled together by volunteers.
This year, the Komets are donating them to Toys for Tots, the Salvation Army and Lutheran Children’s Hospital.
Volcan set off the flurry of teddy bears and others when he scored 7:05 into the game, witnessed by 7,616. Ironically, it was Volcan, whose goal just 48 seconds into the December 2023 game set off the teddy toss that night.
The only negative of the night was Fort Wayne’s 3-2 loss to Kalamazoo.
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