A small Vancouver Canucks fan captured the attention of fans and TV viewers on Wednesday night with a sign he was holding up for everyone to read.
A little boy named Adley, at the game with his dad Aaron Hefter, was holding a sign reading:
‘Bo my dad will buy me a wiener dog if you score. PS: I will name him Hotdog Horvat’.
The Vancouver Canucks’ Twitter account noticed the boy and his sign and snapped a picture:
Then, with about six minutes remaining in the third period, Bo Horvat gave viewers what many were waiting for – a goal.
Meaning, that little boy may now be getting his dog.
Hefter says Adley wanted a wiener dog and tried to persuade him ahead of the game to get one.
“He said, what if his favourite player Bo scored a goal, can he get a wiener dog? I thought about it and I said, sure, we can do that.”
He says Adley was a bit shy to hold up the sign at first, but “as more people kept rooting for us, he got a bit more confident.”
“I did not think it was going to happen,” Hefter said. “First period happened, second period happened, and by the third period, I did not really think we had a chance, but then Bo got it on that breakaway, so we looked at each other and we knew what was going to happen.”
Even Horvat noticed the father-son duo and their sign.
Adley and his dad are now in search for a wiener dog to adopt, as their local SPCA did not have any wiener dogs immediately available for adoption.
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