DETROIT — For decades, part of the experience of going to Detroit Red Wings games included the man who was driving the Zamboni. His presence was so important that the team’s mascot was even named after him. So when he was dismissed in 2022, it didn’t go unnoticed.
However, a Wayne County jury did not side with that Zamboni driver, Al Sobotka, this week when it voted in favor of Olympia Entertainment, the Red Wings’ parent company, in a yearslong age discrimination case that Sobotka brought against the organization in April 2022 after he was dismissed following a urination incident in the Zamboni garage.
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