Hayley Wickenheiser got behind the wheel Monday evening in pursuit of critical supplies for front-line health-care workers fighting the coronavirus.

“I’m driving to Burlington right now to pick up over 200,000 masks and gloves,” the hockey great and emergency room doctor in training said in a telephone interview Monday evening, less than two days after her first plea for donations via social media.

“It’s amazing to see so many Canadians coming together to help. I’m loving Canada right now. I’m pretty proud to be Canadian.”

For Wickenheiser, who also works as the Maple Leafs’ assistant director of player development, one tweet — sent after several calls from friends working on the front lines — was the start of something big.

Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds assisted Wickenheiser’s quest with a tweet of support and offers to donate have been pouring in.

“We’ve been friends for a few years now, and he asked if he could help,” Wickenheiser said of the “Deadpool” star. “He’s given massive financial donations to doctors and hospitals, and now his massive star power is helping get the word out.”

Reynolds, who has 15.7 million followers, tweeted: “People who help Hayley get this critical PPE gear will get something awesome from me. I’ll send you personalized videos. I’ll sign whatever you want. I’ll send Deadpool bobbleheads and/or movie memorabilia.”

Along with the vital personal protection equipment, Wickenheiser said Volvo donated the use of six trucks and drivers. Other offers, she said, came from “people who just want to help.”

The donations are starting to pile up, and Wickenheiser said she’s joined forces with ConquerCOVID19 — a grass-roots organization made up of University of Toronto medical students, doctors and others — to handle the stockpile.

“We’re going to meet this Saturday at the XYZ Storage facility at 459 Eastern Ave. (to begin sorting PPE for delivery),” she said. “We’re looking for gloves, masks, baby monitors, gowns, sanitizers, wipes and gel … People (who donate) won’t have to get out of their car. There will be proper distancing. It will be done right.”

Wickenheiser said the items will be donated in Ontario and Quebec.

“It’s too big a project for one person to take on,” she added. “We want to get (the PPE) out fast, with no red tape. We realize governments are having a hard time getting supplies to the front-line workers. They’re maybe five to eight days from running out. People have come out to help. I have my team in Calgary organizing things, and the people with ConquerCOVID19, the response has been great.

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“I’m driving right now to Burlington to see … a guy I’ve never met. He’s come up with 27,000 N95 masks.”

Wickenheiser, who has also enlisted the help of Maple Leafs Travis Dermott and Zach Hyman in videos to promote the cause, got a sense of the impact of the virus in the course of her work as a medical student at the University of Calgary.

“I was in the hospital every day for two months until about two weeks ago, when we got pulled out because of the shutdown,” she said. “My brother lost his job, my parents self-quarantined after coming home from a trip to Hawaii. I have dear friends who are doctors, others who are policing out there …

“Everywhere I turn in my life, I’m impacted. We’ve all been impacted, and we all want to help each other.”