WASHINGTON – When Tom Hanks was honored at the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors, special guest David Letterman introduced him by joking, “We are honoring a man who was once upstaged by a volleyball.”

Letterman was, of course, referring to Hanks’ Oscar-nominated role in “Cast Away” (2000), where his lonely character befriended a Wilson volleyball made from his own hand print.

This week, the two reunited at a New York Rangers hockey game.

The reunion fittingly came as Sting’s “Message in a Bottle” blared over the speakers at Madison Square Garden. Sting was honored at the same Kennedy Center Honors as Hanks.

Click here for a look back at the Kennedy Center Honors.

Watch the video of Hanks and Wilson below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSJA9X0wUMo