Mom goes viral on TikTok after man stops hockey puck from hitting her 4-year-old son

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In a TikTok video now seen by nearly 3 million people, a local mom started a search for a man who she says saved her son's life at a Cleveland Monsters hockey game.

Asia Davis and Andrew Podolak reunited at Saturday's Cleveland Monsters game after Podolak stopped a puck from hitting her 4-year-old son at a game days prior.now seen by millions of people, Akron mom Asia Davis started a search for the man she says saved her son's life at a Cleveland Monsters hockey game. It didn't take long for them to be reunited — this time for a ceremonial puck drop at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

Davis and her 4-year-old son Nasir were attending the Monsters' home game on Thursday night when Davis said a puck came"straight out of heaven" headed straight towards her son. She says that's when a man sitting next to Nasir intervened and was able to block the puck before it hit the boy."And if you know anything about a hockey puck, it's more dense than a baseball," Davis says in the video."That thing is a flying ...

So Davis put out the call to find the man, and the video went viral, wracking up millions of views and nearly 500,000"likes." More importantly, the man, Andrew Podolak, was identified. And on Saturday, the Monsters brought Davis, Podolak and 4-year-old Nasir back together on the ice for a VIP puck drop ahead of the team's matchup with the Laval Rocket.Davis told NBC News she wanted Podolak to know how grateful she is.

 

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