LOS ANGELS — Aisha Visram expected her family and friends to become emotional when she told them she would be filling in on the Kings' athletic training staff Jan. 13.
They had supported her unlikely dream, offering encouragement when her job applications were rejected and taking it in stride when she was too busy to answer their calls and texts during hockey season. When the national anthem played before the Kings' game against the Pittsburgh Penguins that night, she said, "I felt like they were all there with me sharing in the moment."
But Visram, who is the head athletic trainer for the Kings' American Hockey League farm team in Ontario and was called up to The Show when the Kings' training staff was thinned by COVID-19, didn't expect the torrent of publicity she received for simply doing her job.
