told Sportsnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cIt’s just so cool. I don’t even know if there’s anyone else in the NHL from Northern California, let alone two goalies on the exact same team. The odds are just like, \u2018how does that even happen?\u2019 It’s crazy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really special to have someone to bond with on the team who’s from the same area as you and kind of understands the paths we had to take to beat the odds to get here.\u201d<\/p>\n
California Dreamin’ for Flames Goalies<\/p>\n
Cooley, 28, was born in Los Gatos, California. Wolf, 24, was born in Gilroy, California, but grew up in San Jose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The chances of both goaltenders beating the long odds to become NHLers from such a non-hockey state are remarkable in themselves. That both would end up stopping pucks for the same NHL team at the same time, well, the smart money doesn’t make bets with odds that long.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, the game of hockey has grown so much in this area, let alone the state in general,” Wolf said. “But for a goalie to make it, and for two goalies to make it, and for them to be sharing the same net together, is unheard of.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it probably will never happen again, right?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Calgary Flames take the ice to face the San Jose Sharks at the Shark Tank on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[27929,33102,33013,404,1808,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-97015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-calgary-flames","tag-devin-cooley","tag-dustin-wolf","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}