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P.K. Subban returns to the Canadiens locker room for P.K’s Places

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Former Montreal Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban didn’t take long to take his new show P.K’s Places back to where he started his NHL career.

The newly retired defenceman-turned-ESPN analyst uses his show to tell stories of hockey’s history and there is no better place to turn than what Subban declares as the Mecca of Hockey. It’s clear that Subban is still in love with the team and the city.

The show, which came out on Wednesday, is available on ESPN+ internationally and the United States. There will be an extended YouTube clip of the show available for those in Canada. The show is similar to Peyton’s Places, where Peyton Manning goes around and is produced by Manning’s production company, Omaha Productions.

When Subban enters the team’s locker room, he tries to find his old stall before new captain Nick Suzuki reminds him that he’s no longer in the NHL. Suzuki and Subban agree to challenge each other in hockey later in the episode before Subban heads to the old Montreal Forum to meet up with Yvan Cournoyer.

Seeing Subban with Cournoyer was fun as Subban asked questions about playing in the Original Six. Cournoyer had perhaps the line of the episode when he was talking about his shoulder surgeries. He says they weren’t from hockey, but from lifting the Stanley Cup over his head too many times. Cournoyer, of course, won 10 Stanley Cups.

Subban returns to the Bell Centre where he and Suzuki meet at centre ice to face off in an epic showdown of… bubble hockey.

Between this episode and the team honouring Subban last season, it is nice to see the two sides able to mend the relationship and it’s clear that even in retirement, Subban’s relationship with the city is not over.

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