A Cleveland hockey game-goer who saved a 4-year-old boy from a speeding airborne hockey puck in a split-second move has been reunited with the mum and son thanks to social media.
Nasir Davis was watching a Cleveland Monsters match with his mum and her best friend when the puck went rogue and hurtled at full speed toward the 4-year-old’s head before Andrew Podolak deflected it. Asia Davis, 33, Nasir’s mom, said in a post on TikTok: “This puck comes out of heaven, straight toward my son’s head. If you know anything about a hockey puck, it’s more dense than a baseball. This dude literally saved my son’s life.”
Nasir’s mum took to social media to try and track down her son’s rescuer, saying the “really, really close call” was of “divine intervention” before the TikTok went viral and her son's saviour was found. In the video the 33-year-old recalled the exchange at the time of the near-tragedy: “He was like, ‘I was meant to be here. And he was. You cannot tell me God is not real.”
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Asia took to TikTok to try and track down her son's saviour (Asiafromakron/TikTok)
Nasir had chips of ice in his hair from the close encounter with the puck (Asiafromakron/TikTok)
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Mr Podolak said his friends showed him the viral TikTok, and he reached out to Ms Davis and Nasir. Mr Podolak told WOIO: “It was coming up over the glass, and I just saw it was wobbling and whatnot. I was like, ‘Oh God.’ The first thing I gotta do, first instinct, is protect the kid, jump in front of it.”
Ms Davis said to Mr Podolak in an interview with NBC News: “You’re a really special person and I just hope that you never go a day in your life without knowing that. I don’t think I looked up until the puck was, like, already like past the glass and past the audience.
The puck came up over the barrier and was flying straight toward Nasier's head (Asiafromakron/TikTok)
The three reunited at the next Cleveland game where they were invited onto the ice (Asiafromakron/TikTok)"And next thing I know, it was just screaming and I looked over and he kind of had his hand up in front of my son. I don’t even want to think about what would have happened. Best-case scenario, [Nasir] would have gone to the hospital."
The incredible tale soon reached the Cleveland Monsters team and they reached out to both Nasir and Mr Podolak offering the pair free tickets to the next game with a bonus “on-ice experience.” Nasir and his mum and their hero have since reunited and met the Cleveland team members, with Ms Davis repeatedly expressing her gratitude for Mr Podolak saving her son’s life.
It comes after when a smashed into his throat during a practice session. The boy was practising at a complex in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, when the tragedy unfolded, with police later confirming the boy had died from his injuries.
The child was struck before emergency responders raced him to a nearby hospital in Montreal. Police said he sustained the injury while wearing all of the required protective equipment, including a neck guard.
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