Former Roseau resident Alex Bjerk, 29, couldn't have scripted a better scenario.

Twice, the veteran amateur goalie didn't get the starting nod in two of the biggest sporting events in high school and college.

That was then and this is now. He's out in Las Vegas, Nevada, where the biggest game in town isn't at the Golden Nugget or at Caesars Palace.

It's at T-Mobile Arena.

Bjerk, a 2007 Roseau High School graduate and 2013 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire graduate, possibly wouldn't take all the money from every slot machine to switch places as the lone emergency goalie for the Vegas Golde...