P.K. Subban will be a Montreal Canadien until the 2021-22 season in a contract that guarantees the 25 year-old defenseman $72 million C over eight years.
Honoured in 2013 with the Norris Trophy, an award voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association, to determine the player who was the best defenseman during the regular season, he is now being honoured with a contract that recognizes not only his talent, but his star-status in Montreal.
The eldest of 5 children born to Karl and Maria Subban in Toronto, Pernell Karl began watching the game and playing it with his father at the age of 4. Originally from Jamaica, his father had fallen in love with hockey after immigrating to the northern Ontario city of Sudbury.
Karl Subban had played cricket ant soccer in Jamaica, but he joined the strong French community of Sudbury in their love of the Montreal Canadien’s hockey team, despite the intense rivalry with the more local, or provincial team, the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Now after only 4 years in the National Hockey League, P.K. Subban has only played with the team he revered and after some tough negotiations, he has received the highest contract ever for the Montreal organization, one most feel he richly deserves.
P.K. Subban handles himself as well off the ice as on. An ugly incident during the Stanlely Cup championship playoffs earlier this spring is a good example. When a disgruntled Boston Bruins fan tweeted a racist comment about Subban, one of the few black players in the league, P.K. deflected it with grace and dignity. Subban responded by clarifying the difference between one fan and the people of Boston and Bruin’s organization, who he said, always treated himself, and his family, so well.
Montrealer’s, who spent the beginning of last season, chanting P.K’s name, as he was not yet signed, are gearing up for another great year of hockey with a young and talented team, knowing one of the best, won’t be leaving soon.
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