Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz is the last Panther standing. The entire rest of the team is out with food poisoning for the third period. Grzegorz has a small lead, which he now has to hold for twenty minutes of hockey in which the other team will have permanent possession and he will have no defense. This is impossible. An actual saint performing a literal miracle would struggle to get 0.900 this period, let alone hold a shutout. So, what Grzegorz needs is not a bunch of beer leaguers or fans to embarrass themselves trying to play hockey against professionals. If anything, that's how you get injured beer leaguers, not a sports miracle. No, what Grzegorz needs here is to prevent hockey from being played for twenty minutes of game time. If the league won't postpone the game as they obviously should, Grzegorz will make a travesty of it.

The team that emerges from, and in the process demolishes, the tunnel for the third period is Grzegorz and every megafauna in the Los Angeles city zoo. The elephants are the first line, the rhinos are the second line, hippos on defense, and a walrus is the backup goalie. The opposition protests vehemently, but there is no rule in the SHL rulebook stating that players have to be humans. In fact, there is precedent for this exact scenario, as Melvin Majestik-Moose had a solid career despite being a moose, and Grzegorz himself is a sphereoid political cartoon from the internet.

The animals cause so much chaos that Grzegorz only has to face six shots in the final period. He saves them all. The day is saved, the game has been made a travesty, and the league is justly embarrassed for refusing to postpone this match.

(295 words, great prompt!)