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Senior pastor Bob Froese was getting some work done on his laptop and a hockey game was on TV in the background in what he likes to call his man cave.

When the Los Angeles Kings and Colorado Avalanche went to a shootout on Saturday, Froese started paying closer attention to the riveting contest. He was interested to see how the goalies handled the one-on-one confrontation.

It got to the shootout which I think is just so exhilarating, [because] I didnt have to do them, Froese said. All of a sudden, at the end of the game, they said this goaltender, [Martin] Jones, has tied the record for most wins" at the start of a career.

It didnt even dawn on me until I heard my name. Its amazing. It caught me out of left field.

Froese later came back to the surreal experience, saying: I joked with my wife: Is there another Bob Froese?

With eight wins in the first eight starts of his career, Kings rookie goaltender Martin Jones tied Froeses modern-day record. Froese won his first eight starts with the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1982-83 season.

Jones said after the Kings 3-2 win in the shootout that he wasnt aware of the record. He has the chance to break the mark Monday night at Staples Center against the Dallas Stars.

It turned out that Froese had the game on only because the youngest of his four sons, who is 21, happens to be a Kings fan. Froese was talking about the experience in a telephone interview from his office on Monday afternoon at the Faith Fellowship Church in Clarence, N.Y., which is about half an hour away from Buffalo.

Froese went 9-0-1 to start his NHL career and suffered his first loss, at Buffalo on Feb 23, 1983. He went 17-4-2 with a goals-against average of 2.52 his rookie season.

You get in there and everything is new and exciting, he said. Youre not blinking because you dont want to miss anything. When you get on the ice, youre so focused. I was thinking about this and just reflecting on it, that this young goaltender [Jones], its really a time where you just want to sit back and just savor.

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NHL record watch: From Bob Froese to Kings rookie Martin Jones