Jacob Markstrom Surprises Young Goalie with New Gear

Canucks goaltender Jacob Markstrom was thrilled to be asked by Sport Chek to surprise a young aspiring goalie and outfit him in all new gear, as part of their charitable Jumpstart program. At just 14 years old, Mathew is already 6-foot-1 and quickly growing out of all the gear he previously owned.

Jumpstart is a national charitable program that helps financially disadvantaged kids participate in organized sports and recreation across Canada.

Since 2005 Jumpstart has helped over 958,000 children between the ages of 4 and 18. This year Jumpstart will be helping their 1 millionth child get out and get active in organized sport.

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[goaliejoe]

If my favorite goalie did this for me I would literally die of excitement

[boundarysentinel]

Awesome hard to tell who was more excited kid or the pro! What a great Canadian program!

[arth]

As a blues fan this is amazing I always appreciate when teams do things like this

[BGerbs]

No, Jacob! You're the better goalie!

[nordiceesti]

Markstrom my favorite goalie. Love him! Keep on playing good with the Canucks!!!

[Highlanderabroad]

How can anyone give this a thumbs down. This was a nice thing to do although it is also done by the customers that donated to jumpstart and not out of the pockets of Sportchek.

[StonedSpagooter]

5 years later and he is a goalie any team would be happy to have

[vandayton]

bauer leg pads, glove, blocker, pants, and chest protector but a reebok jersey

[mamaji]

This is great man, it really helps people stay playing hockey cause it's so damn expensive. I'm a hockey fanatic and I've never been on the ice, I watch countless games and I play as much ball hockey as i can but it's not enough cause in Toronto everyone's hopping on that basketball bandwagon. This initiative is great, there's gonna be more and more stars coming into the league 5-10 years from now who were funded by these charitable acts of kindness.

[tjlk]

what a nice guy Marky
Canucks n Bauer as well

[Mrocky]

I still sleep with my new glove and im 18

[rickmason]

Way to go jump-start and that Markstrom what a class act

[audielajeunesse]

That is so great - made me feel tears!

[evilakurei]

Super nice of them... But man if that would have happened to me at 14... I would have been doing the happy dance on top of that fitting bench.. Probably stripped my shirt off and did laps in the store singing the best day ever song. I think there should have been some tears of joy and screaming and yelling from that lucky kid. :D

[baconbomb]

I loved the Canucks since I was 2 and my favorite goalies is markstrom

[MikeyMac]

So nice of Marky to hook up Mikey DiPietro with new gear!!!

[Samhendrix]

why does he not seem so excited and like happy

[Johnny_Dregs]

Really cool. After a year of clinics I had to stop because gear in the early 90's was too expensive for our family. Not too mention the ice time fees and league fees.

[whokitkat]

That is super chicken Big big Kudos to Jacob Markstrom and Sport Chek! This was so nice to see.

[controhd]

Legit just had a dream of Braden Holtby doing this for me haha