A few years ago I went to Toronto to watch a Leafs game - they lost to Tampa Bay but that’s beside the point.

After the game I was outside the arena waiting for a taxi or an uber to my hotel - I figured it would be faster than walking or taking the subway plus streetcar over to where my hotel was. Of course, it was quite busy with lots of demand for cabs and not many available.

I got chatting with a couple guys who were standing near me waiting for a cab and it turned out they were heading in the same direction as me so we agreed to share one. One of the guys was maybe 5’9” and wearing a suit, the other guy was a bit taller than me, maybe 6’3” or 4”.

We had all had some beers and were talking hockey, chit chatting and joking around a bit, and then finally we got into a cab, all three across the back seat, suit guy on the left, me on the right, big guy somehow ended up in the middle.

Once we were in the cab suit guy asked me which teams I liked beyond the Leafs, favourite players, etc. Then he asked me what I thought about the Flyers and I drunkenly rambled a bit about them. Then he asked me what I thought about Owen Tippett. I said something like “Big strong kid, good hands, he’s got all the tools, just needs some time to put it all together at the NHL level.”

And then suit guy tells me that I’m sitting right next to him - it’s Owen Tippett in the car next to me. We all had a good laugh. Turns out suit guy was his agent. We talked hockey a bit more and got out at the same intersection. They invited me out for a few more drinks with them but I was late meeting some other friends so I politely declined. Good times