Before the game began, a video was shown of players singing Bill Withers\u2019 1972 hit \u201cLean On Me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before puck drop, the players and fans all put their left hand on the shoulder of the person next them and said, \u201cReach out, check in, make contact.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And that is what the night was all about, reminding everyone they are not alone, no matter what they are facing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLife is hard, you know? Really hard,\u201d Lyon said. \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t matter who you are or what circumstances you have. Everyone faces challenges on a daily basis, and certainly I think thinking about how you operate in a healthy place and asking for help is important.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust being cognizant of that goes a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n
So was setting an example for fans in attendance, including younger members of the audience, that there should not be a stigma associated with talking about mental health issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s showing awareness that it\u2019s OK to be uncomfortable, it\u2019s OK to be vulnerable,\u201d said Jules Constantinople from East Haven, Connecticut, who played at Northeastern University and was selected by Vancouver in the third round (No. 25) of the 2026 Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League Draft. \u201cAnd it\u2019s OK to have conversations with others, teammates, coaches. It doesn\u2019t matter who it is, we\u2019re all going through the same things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the game began, a video was shown of players singing Bill Withers\u2019 1972 hit \u201cLean On Me.\u201d\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-835385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}