Zack Fitzgerald was a third-round pick of the
St. Louis Blues (88th overall in 2003) who played a single NHL game, a 17-shift performance with the
Vancouver Canucks in 2007-08. He's been playing for the
Sheffield Steelers of the EIHL (British Elite League) for the past three seasons, after a decade of toiling around the AHL and two stints in the ECHL, mostly spent accumulating penalty minutes:
That being said, he's also won a championship while playing abroad (that's him with his wife, a fan of
Iron Maiden):
Still, sometimes one game is enough for posterity, and he slots in extremely nicely as #49 in my
Canucks Numbers Project, with card #503 from
Upper Deck's
2008-09 O-Pee-Chee set and
Marquee Rookies sub-set:
Note that the card lists him as "Zach", but he actually spells it "Zack". He signed it in blue sharpie while playing with the
Hamilton Bulldogs in 2011-12.
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