U.S. Coast Guard Fireman Brandon Woodford returned from deployment in South and Central America to surprise his family in the most appropriate way possible, at the Springfield Thunderbird’s game. He told WWLP “I’ve always liked hockey, and I figured it was a good place to get them here.”
“The main thing is too, when I took the oath of office, when I first signed up, I took it at a hockey game, so it’s kind of cool to start at a hockey game and end at a hockey game,” he said.