59-year-old woman makes impossible hockey shot

By: Bailey Johnson
Topics: Blogosphere

(CBS) - Make the shot, win a prize. It's a staple of carnivals around the world - a deceptively simple game that is in practice nearly impossible. This video shows the hockey version of the age old game: hit the puck all the way down the rink into a net almost completely blocked off but for one puck-sized hole. No one could make that shot. Well, no one except for Brenda Hewett, who won a pickup truck at an Akwesasne Warriors minor league hockey game by doing the impossible. But what's more impossible to believe: that Mrs. Hewett made the shot, or that she'd never before held a hockey stick in her life?

The representative of the auto dealer that's now out one Ford F-150 sets the scene:

Hi folks this is Scott Coupal General Manager here at Frenchie's Ford Inc. I gotta tell you I've seen some cool things in my life, but friday night took the grand prize, Mrs. Brenda Hewlett 59 years old won a chance to be one of 5 people to shoot the puck to win a brand new 2011 Ford F150 4x4, Brenda had been in t...he dealership on friday morning to get some service work done to her old truck, & had said "god I wish I could afford a new truck mine is falling apart" Joe Jock my service manager said "here fill out this ballot & win one" both started laughing.

It's a one in a Gazzilion shot from 114 feet away, the opening is almost the exact size of a regulation size hockey puck. Mrs. Hewlett has never even held a hockey stick in her entire life let alone ever shot a puck. The finalists were all on the ice after I drove the new truck onto the ice, I had friends in the back of the truck throwing frisbee's into the crowd. After a lap around the arena, I gathered the contestants at the far blue line, I yelled out ladies first , Mrs. Hewlett said "Oh god I don't wanna be first I'm going to look foolish" She put a helmet on grabbed the stick I walked up next to her & said "Let It Go & Believe"

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