Video: Touching moment at hockey game, as soldier reunites with family

Video: Touching moment at hockey game, as soldier reunites with family

DigitalSports | March 12, 2013
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It was supposed to be just an ordinary ceremonial puck drop for Kentucky natives and siblings, Karisma and Phillip Gallardo, who were attending the Cincinnati Cyclones-Evansville IceMen ECHL game with their family.

After the mascot headed off the ice, acting like he had forgotten the puck, a surprise guest made an appearance. Their father, a U.S. soldier they thought was still deployed in Afghanistan and who they hadn't seen in over a year, made his way out on to the ice. The reactions from his children are priceless: Break out the tissue box.