Ten years ago, former Montreal Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban announced a major commitment to the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
On Wednesday, the 2013 Norris Trophy winner spoke with CJAD 800 Radio host Aaron Rand about his life away from hockey, his new gig as an ESPN analyst, and his continued work with the Children’s.
“It’s very important to me,” Subban told Rand.
In 2015, Subban pledged to raise $10 million for the hospital, and part of that commitment, each holiday season he matches donations from the community dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000. To date, the Children’s says his foundation has raised $6.3 million.
Subban said he celebrates the relationship with the hospital and the money that’s been raised every day.
“Never mind the pledge and the foundation, what we do, but just the relationship that I built, built with the people, the nurses,” he said. “When I go back there, even though I haven’t played there in a long time, 10 years, eight years, nine years, whatever it is, you know, I go back there, …