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During the NHL’s All Star Weekend last February, Tampa Bay Lightning star Steven Stamkos was eager to make scrapbook-worthy memories with his then 2 and a half-year-old son, Carter.
“As an athlete, you never know when it’s going to be your last All Star game, so I made a point of bringing him up there with me,” Stamkos told The Post of having Carter with him during a press conference. “It meant the world to me.”
The 32-year-old father of two got that and more: a tender moment with his offspring that delivered a 10 on the cuteness scale and a viral video that stole the show.
While sitting on his father’s lap, Carter repeatedly asked to ride the Zamboni, punctuating every request with a precocious and well-mannered “please.”
The father of two acquiesced and excused himself from the microphone. “We do a pretty good job of making sure he says ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ all the time. Probably one of the reasons I did end up leaving the press conference and going was because he asked politely.”
And thus, Carter Stamkos became known as “the Zamboni kid.”
So when the NHL and the Zamboni Company were launching their first electric Zamboni ride-on toy, they tapped their most famous little fan to officially introduce it.
In an equally adorable video, Stamkos took Carter to his home ice at Amalie Arena and surprised the now 3-year-old with his very own mini Zamboni.
