The jury voted 5-2 against Al Sobotka, who alleged Olympia Entertainment fired him at 69 because it thought he was too old.

We paid like $2,000 a month just for one prescription." Zamboni driver Al Sobotka swings an octopus after retrieving it from the ice in the third period of the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in Detroit on ...

A Wayne County jury has found that longtime Detroit Red Wings Zamboni driver Al Sobotka was not discriminated against because of his age and disability when he was fired for peeing in a drain in the Zamboni garage in 2022.

If the name Al Sobotka rings a bell, you might remember him as the long-time, octopus twirling, Zamboni driver for the Detroit Red Wings for the past several decades. He was fired from the staff in 2022 after another employee caught him urinating where they dump out the ice from the Zamboni.

From the beginning of deliberations, the mostly young jury was split 5-2 against fired Red Wings Zamboni driver Al Sobotka.

More than three years after getting fired for urinating in a drain at work, ex- Detroit Red Wings Zamboni driver Al Sobotka heads to trial this week in Wayne County Circuit Court, where he hopes to convince a jury that he was wrongfully axed from a job he held for 50 hockey seasons.