The Xhekaj family story started a new chapter this summer.
The entire family moved into a new home that Canadiens defenceman Arber Xhekaj and his brother Florian — who is looking to make the team at training camp — purchased in Grimsby Mountain, about a 30-minute drive east from the Hamilton home they grew up in.
“It was an opportunity to move our parents into a nicer house and a lot of land, too, for them to kind of do their thing,” Arber said Thursday following a practice at training camp in Brossard. “It was pretty special and we were happy to do it for them.”