[1] Weekes' career began with the Owen Sound Platers of the Ontario Hockey League.

[citation needed] The Carolina Hurricanes acquired Weekes on March 5, 2002 for Chris Dingman and Shane Willis.

Weekes essentially served as a backup to Arturs Irbe during the remainder of the regular season, only playing in two of the final seventeen games for the Hurricanes.

During the playoffs, Weekes played an important part in the Hurricanes run to the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals.

[citation needed] Weekes was the primary goaltender for the Hurricanes during the 2002–03 season playing in 51 games and compiling a 14–24–9 record and was the primary goaltender for the Hurricanes in 2003-04 playing in 66 games compiling a 23–30–11 record.

His time with the Rangers looked to be promising until an injury kept him out and he lost his number one spot to Henrik Lundqvist.

Weekes remained in good spirits upon his healthy return to the team even though he had been bumped to the number two spot and back up to the rookie Lundqvist.

On July 5, 2007, he signed with the New Jersey Devils to serve as a backup to All-Star Martin Brodeur.

[3] The Devils made the playoffs but lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference quarter finals.

[9] Many fans started create memes, manipulating the background so that it would seem that Weekes would report on different crazy locations, such as space and various world landmarks, and even some fictional locale.