{"id":417362,"date":"2026-01-20T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/417362\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:22:28","slug":"laval-rocket-game-forced-to-end-early-after-fan-dies-in-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/417362\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval Rocket game forced to end early after fan dies in arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>An American Hockey League (AHL) game in Laval, Que., Saturday was forced to end early after a fan died.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The matchup between the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/laval-rocket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Laval Rocket<\/a> and Manitoba Moose ended with 1:13 remaining in the third period due to a medical emergency in the spectator area. The Moose were up 3-0 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Rocket said in a post on X Sunday that fan, Michel Pelletier, was a member of the Rocket community for seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to offer our most sincere condolences to his family and all his loved ones,\u201d the team said in part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has always been there to encourage us and the Rockey family is wholeheartedly with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Un message de l\u2019organisation du Rocket de Laval<br \/>A message from the Laval Rocket organization <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9tcLiOwDmD\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/9tcLiOwDmD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j3Tiw9LorL\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/j3Tiw9LorL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rocket de Laval (@RocketLaval) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLaval\/status\/2012960694321176692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11618515\/canada-qatar-deal-major-projects\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768890147_671_56ffb35414957c2add3c639a99712cb32e74325c5f00f0f62553e06522413330.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tQatar to invest in Canada\u2019s major building projects, Carney says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11619365\/greenland-donald-trump-threats-eu-summit\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trump-Greenland-Norway.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tOn Greenland, Trump says no \u2018obligation\u2019 to seek peace as Europe braces\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The AHL also issued a statement Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to the emergency responders at Place Bell who treated him, and our thoughts go out to his loved ones and to the Laval Rocket organization,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size An American Hockey League (AHL) game in Laval, Que., Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[401,19,5,1527,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-417362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-laval-rocket","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115925992002472953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417362","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=417362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}