Is There A Better Person On The Planet Than P.K. Subban?
I feel like P.K. Subban doesn’t really get the credit he deserves. Maybe that’s because he isn’t in a huge market like Montreal anymore, maybe it’s because the NHL is brutal at marketing their superstars. Who knows? But P.K. Subban is one of the best dudes on the planet and it’s time more people talk about it.
This past week, Fox Sports Tennessee released the video above of Subban and Ryan Johansen taking a little boy named Brayden under their wing after his father passed from cancer. At the end of the video, the two offer to set Brayden up with hockey equipment and sign him up for the local hockey league, on their dime. I can’t imagine there are hockey stores on every corner in Nashville, so this gesture goes a lot farther than one would think.
What Subban does for the community of Nashville is unbelievable for the short amount of time he’s been there. And while a video surfaces every few months of Subban doing something really special for somebody, I can assure you that this happens about 10x more when the cameras aren’t rolling. He doesn’t do it for the PR, he doesn’t do it so people like him, he does it because he is a genuine dude who has a giant heart. And he showed once again how big that heart was this past Christmas when he gave a local Nashville family an entire new living room, a chef made dinner and an overall great Christmas.
and then there was the Christmas before….
And of course, Subban includes the kids up in Montreal, having played there for 7 seasons. What Subban did in Montreal and continues to still do, even after being traded from the city, for the Children’s hospital is one of the most remarkable stories in all of hockey. Pledging 10 million to the Montreal Children’s Hospital. Along with the money donated, Subban continues to do something special for the kids, year in and year out on Christmas.
Along with all the giving Subban does, he still aims to make the world a better place. This season, Subban started P.K.’s Blueline Buddies Program. At each Predators home game this season, Subban brings together a member of the Metro Nashville Police Department and an underprivileged youth, along with their guests. The group goes out to dinner before, meets Subban before and after the game and is given tickets to the game, all on Subban’s dime. P.K.’s best friend is a police officer, who helped inspire the program. “Our law enforcement, these are people that leave their houses and may not come back home at the end of the night,” Subban told NHL.com. “That’s the job that they have, so to make them feel good, and to also be able to help underprivileged youth that don’t get an opportunity like everyone else, that come from broken homes, it’s a win-win.”
Subban should be the face of the NHL if he isn’t already. What he does both on and off the ice is unlike any player in NHL history. The electricity he brings on the ice along with everything he does for the community off the ice is a package that cannot be matched.