Poor Orlando Boni. When you're the world's leading manufacturer of portable hockey-puck shooting machines, you get a lot of strange phone calls. "Whenever some goaltender turns in a stellar performance, I get all kinds of people calling me who say they want to learn his style," says the 70-year-old craftsman from his Toronto factory. "One guy told me he was some kind of wizard who could make things disappear, and he wanted to buy a machine and 'practise' on pucks. Another one told me he was a karate expert and swore he could catch a flying puck with a pair of pliers. Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me anymore if I got a call from Idi Amin."

Recently, though, he got a call ...

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