National Post Sports

Meet the guy who threw the salmon on the ice during the Canucks-Leafs game: Nanaimo hockey fan Joey Smith tried to act casual as he headed into a Vancouver Canucks game with a five-pound salmon strapped to his stomach.

The fish was vacuum sealed and flattened beneath his sweater and jeans, but it was heavy and awkward. He heard his friends’ wrapped fish had started leaking and security guards were doing patdowns.

“I was a little worried getting caught” he said. “But there were three of us with salmon taped to our chests so I knew we wouldn’t fail … and a lot of what I was thinking had to do with getting the fish off.”