Steve Wallace is worried somebody's going to get hurt.
They might look the same but there a big difference between a sponge rubber puck and the six-ounce vulcanized rubber puck somebody threw onto the CN Centre ice during an intermission promotion between the second and third periods of Saturday's Prince George Cougars-Kelowna Rockets game.
Wallace, the former Quesnel mayor and owner of Wallace Driving School, has been offering a free driving lesson for fans at Cougar games who purchase sponge pucks at the game to throw at a white GMC Tracker parked on the ice. The winner is the person who throws a puck that lands in the vehicle through the open windows or whose puck ends up closest to the vehicle.
But he said he might pull the plug on the promotion if the hard-rubber barrage continues.
Wallace did not actually see if the heavy puck hit the vehicle Saturday, but when crews came out to collect the thrown pucks, a regulation puck with a Scotiabank logo was found. He said Scotiabank gives away real pucks in the CN Centre concourse during Cougar games.
Wallace is hoping fans will watch out for people throwing real pucks and report them to CN Centre staff.
"If the guy who threw the real puck knows we know, the likelihood is a real puck is not going to get thrown out," said Wallace. "People will know if it's a real puck being thrown.
"We're afraid somebody might get injured, or the car will get dented. It would be pretty easy for a puck to wipe out the windshield."
