Darren Helm welcomes baby daughter on way to hospital

Sometimes scenes from movies get played out in real life … by hockey players.

For example, remember the beginning of “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” when Will Ferrell’s mother, played by Jane Lynch, gives birth to him in a car as she and the father rush to the hospital? Red Wings forward Darren Helm experienced this same joy in similar fashion.

From MLive.com:

Helm and girlfriend, Devon, welcomed the birth of their second child, Rylee Klaire (six pounds, 10 ounces). But the amazing way she came into this world left Helm shaken - but relieved and ecstatic that baby and mother are just fine.

Devon gave birth in the car on the way to the hospital at 2:15 a.m. Monday.

But it gets even crazier. According to the story, Devon delivered Rylee herself, as if we haven't said "wow" enough in our collective brains at this story. According to The Detroit Free Press, the blessed event occurred on Interstate 96.

Per Helm from MLive:

"It was quite the experience, quite the ordeal," Helm said. "But everything is good now."

Helm said the baby arrived about seven days and five minutes too early. They were five minutes away from Providence Park Hospital when Devon delivered in the back seat, which Helm called "very remarkable and incredible."

First off, Devon is a keeper. That’s incredible. Second, even tough as nails Red Wings coach Mike Babcock was impressed.

"Is that awesome or what?" coach Mike Babcock said. "It's unbelievable that could still happen. I just think back to many moons ago when we had ours, I can just imagine the urgency and the tension right there. But his [girlfriend] is obviously a trooper. That would have been quite a visual, to say the least.

Quite the visual indeed. In case anyone was wondering, Helm is in the lineup for Tuesday night's game between Detroit and Arizona. He's tough, he's a hockey player.

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