Keivonn Woodard is a younger boy of quite a few skills.
The 10-year-aged became a strike sensation for his overall performance as Sam Burrell on HBO’s “The Very last of Us”, but he can do considerably more than acting.
Woodard, a deaf participant on the Bowie Hockey Club below-10 workforce in Maryland, on Feb. 24 put in the working day at the Washington Capitals practice facility in Arlington, Va., where he met with NHL star Alexander Ovechkin.
Woodard stood along with Ovechkin in the follow locker room, wherever he taught the Capitals star how to say his nickname in American Sign Language.
“I won’t be able to feel it. This is a dream of mine,” Woodard reported as a result of an ASL interpreter soon after meeting Ovechkin.
Woodard claimed his objective is to be the 1st deaf Black NHL player, and he acquired to clearly show off his likely on the apply rink with Capitals goaltender Charlie Lindgren and ahead Nicolas Aube-Kubel.
The Capitals past Oct granted Bowie Hockey Club $10,000 to aid boost variety in the activity, with a portion of the revenue getting invested in an ASL interpreter to assistance Woodard thrive on the ice.
Woodard also attended the Capitals’ “Celebrating Black History Month” activity on Feb. 25 from the New York Rangers, where he witnessed a 6-3 gain for the hometown squad.
