The second season was nominated for six Gemini Awards, including Best Comedy Series, Best Ensemble Performance, Best Directing, Best Writing, Best Cinematography and Best Casting.
Rent-a-Goalie follows Cake (Christopher Bolton), a hockey-mad, recovered-from-everything go-to guy, who runs a rag-tag hockey goalie rental service from Cafe Primo, a family-owned coffee shop in Toronto's Little Italy.
He spends his time juggling friends and enemies, the ridiculous and the profound, while always trying to live by "The Code" – an ever-evolving set of personal ethics, spiritual maxims and athletic credos that keep him on the straight and narrow.
On March 4, 2008, Alliance Home Entertainment released the complete first season on DVD in Canada.
The TV show Rent-a-Goalie provided the idea to make renting a hockey goalie a reality.