player can get nervous as they prepare for their National Hockey League debut.
In the case of Brian Boyle, there wasn’t any time for that.
“I was worried I wasn’t going to even make it to the game,” Boyle recalls. “I was really excited about my first game, but this was not exactly how I wanted it to start. I think in the end it helped out, it kind of calmed my nerves, I wasn’t thinking too much about the game.
So instead of worrying about his play, Boyle was just worried about getting to the game on time.
“I just knew I had to get there, stretch out quickly and get my gear on.”
Boyle was recalled from Manchester on an emergency basis after injuries to Ladislav Nagy and Scott Thornton decimated the Kings front line.
Only Boyle got the call around 1 p.m. for a 7 p.m. game, and he was was in Manchester, N.H., and the team for which he was to play that night was in Newark, N.J., as the Kings prepared to play the New Jersey Devils.
The Monarchs were scrambling to get Boyle to where he needed to be, some 136.02 miles to the South west.
A flight was out of the question, so a black Lincoln Town car and driver were booked, and his journey to the NHL, which began at such an early age, was so close to being realized.
But just to add a few more twists in this journey, the driver got lost.
Boyles Makes His Nhl Debut, Barely (lakings) 
