Keanu Reeves signs with Canadian hockey team for one day
Keanu Reeves has signed a contract to join a Canadian hockey team for one day – find out more below.
This past weekend, the Ontario Hockey League revealed that the John Wick and The Matrix star Keanu Reeves signed a single-day contract with the Windsor Spitfires. The single-day contract signing is all part of a charity auction bid.
A copy of his one-day contract and a special Keanu Reeves jersey are bring auctioned off with all proceeds going to the Canadian Mental Health Association of Windsor-Essex.
The auction is now live, and the current top bid (at the time of publishing) is placed at CAD $20,000. You can, however, purchase the contract and jersey immediately for $50,000, ending the auctioning process. The winning bid will also receive special edition cases, along with a photo.
The signing serves as a full-circle moment for Reeves, who played as a goalie for his high school team in Toronto, and had aspirations to play in the national team before deciding to make the jump to acting.
Funnily enough, Reeves’ first feature film role would see him play a hockey player in the Rob Lowe-led sports drama Youngblood.
In other news, Reeves recently spoke out about sustaining a brutal kneecap injury while filming Aziz Ansari’s forthcoming comedy Good Fortune, saying: “It cracked like a potato chip.”
He was spotted walking with crutches and an ice pack wrapped to his left knee earlier this year. Ansari later said that Reeves fractured his kneecap after tripping on a rug in his trailer. In an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Reeves explained the whole story.
“I was filming a scene with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen and we were in a cold plunge,” he recalled. “I was loving it, I was standing there, and we finish the scene, and you know when you’re cold and you’re [shuffling]? I had a bathing suit and a towel, and you put it over your head and you do the cold shuffle?
“I’m doing the cold shuffle in this room that had protective carpets down and then, just here, there was like a little pocket, and my foot got caught in the pocket in the shuffle, and then I went [down], but [my knee] didn’t follow.
He continued: “And then, in slow motion, I went falling. My arms came out, but then my knee failed because it’s got some stuff, and I spiked it. And my patella – kneecap – cracked like a potato chip.”
Elsewhere, Reeves recently revealed that he finds himself thinking about death a lot as he edges closer to his 60th birthday.
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