Sutton Bullard (bottom left) with a friend and family at Washington Capitals game on New Year’s Eve (courtesy of Jolie Berman)

Sutton Bullard smiles for the camera at Washington Capitals game on New Year’s Eve (courtesy of Jolie Berman)

Sutton Bullard poses with a “Happy New Year” sign during a Washington Capitals game on New Year’s Eve (courtesy of Jolie Berman)

Sutton Bullard is surprised with Washington Capitals tickets for New Year’s Eve (courtesy of Jolie Berman)

A young Caps fan and cancer survivor from Alexandria rang in the new year with surprise tickets to see the team and reunite with her favorite player earlier this month.

Sutton Bullard, 7, spent New Year’s Eve with her family watching the Caps defeat the New York Rangers, and later reuniting with goaltender Logan Thompson. It was the end of an eventful year for Sutton, who in November celebrated the end of her chemotherapy with a bell-ringing ceremony, in which Thompson had paid a surprise visit.

The tickets were sent by the team’s coffee and donut partner, Dunkin’, along with a “swag box” filled with gift cards, sunglasses and other memorabilia.

“I mean, it was fantastic,” Sutton’s mother, Michelle Cullum, told ALXnow. “Sutton had a great time. She was able to bring her best friend, a family friend that lives down the street from us, who really helped us out while Sutton was going through all of her treatment … it just became a really cool moment of starting off 2026.”

Sutton celebrated 800 days of treatment for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in November, one year after she met Thompson during the Caps’ Hockey Fights Cancer skate in 2024.

The two were reunited at Children’s National Hospital when Thompson showed up to Sutton’s bell-ringing ceremony with a signed Hockey Fights Cancer jersey. In NBC News footage of the ceremony, Sutton recognizes him immediately and runs to give him a big hug.

“After that, Sutton decided she wanted to get Logan a gift,” Cullum said. “We put together an ornament, like this metal ornament that had a picture of the two of them from her bell-ringing.”

Sutton was able to deliver that gift as the family reunited with Thompson after the game. It was a special night for the player, as well, who had just been named to the Canadian Olympic team.

Cullum said it was a “really neat moment” for the pair.

“He was there for her when she had her bell-ringing,” Cullum said. “Coincidentally … she got to be there for his big moment of making the Olympic team. It was such a cool event.”