{"id":294464,"date":"2025-11-10T06:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/294464\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T06:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:08:20","slug":"a-touching-pre-game-moment-at-the-bell-centre-you-might-have-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/294464\/","title":{"rendered":"A Touching Pre-Game Moment at the Bell Centre You Might Have Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/612721.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Canadiens star Zachary Bolduc\" title=\"Canadiens star Zachary Bolduc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: All Habs \/ NHL<\/p>\n<p>The Hockey Fights Cancer night at the Bell Centre highlighting the children from Leucan and an emotional moment with Zach Bolduc before the Montreal Canadiens game.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m warning you, it&#8217;s pretty touching!<\/p>\n<p>Even before the game started, something truly moving happened on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Children from Leucan were invited to experience this moment with the Montreal Canadiens players, right beside them, in the Bell Centre atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>We saw Zach Bolduc leaning down to speak softly with a young boy. Each player had a child assigned to him for the national anthem!<\/p>\n<p>It was simple, no unnecessary words &#8211; just a genuine moment from the heart.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment, nobody was talking about hockey anymore.<\/p>\n<p>It was just a real encounter, sincere and full of meaning.<\/p>\n<p>You could see emotional faces in the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Martineau also shared a beautiful message:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tell your children you love them tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful ceremony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Anthony Martineau<\/p>\n<p>Priyanta Emrith, for her part, also reminded everyone of the similar moment last year:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always a touching night when the Habs honour the children of Leucan for their Hockey Fights Cancer game; it&#8217;s hard to forget this heartwarming moment from last year&#8217;s game&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Priyanta Emrith<\/p>\n<p>Moments like this remind us why this sport brings so many people together.<\/p>\n<p>I really think there are nights when victory isn&#8217;t on the scoreboard, but in what we feel.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPOLL<\/p>\n<p>NOVEMBRE 8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0367 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>A Touching Pre-Game Moment at the Bell Centre You Might Have Missed<\/p>\n<p>Do you think moments like this should happen more often during Montreal Canadiens games?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: All Habs \/ NHL The Hockey Fights Cancer night at the Bell Centre highlighting the children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[3956,265,5,42732,638,412,264,21,5147,4,1484],"class_list":{"0":"post-294464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadien","9":"tag-canadiens","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-hockey-for","12":"tag-ivan-demidov","13":"tag-martin-st-louis","14":"tag-montreal","15":"tag-montreal-canadiens","16":"tag-montrealcanadiens","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-zachary-bolduc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115523911954563476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}