Canadiens Caught Off Guard as Gary Bettman Approves Unusual Player Request
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In the past few hours, a second excerpt from the series on the Montreal Canadiens’ rebuild has been released.
It was Gary Bettman who accepted the Montreal Canadiens’ request for their player Cole Caufield
It was indeed a very unusual situation, but Bettman immediately approved the request. Wow.
“Johnny Gaudreau wore number 13.
Now, Cole Caufield wants to honor his memory and have the same on his jersey.”
Narrator
“I asked Kent and Jeff if it was possible, and they told me they would have to contact the league (the NHL), because it’s not something that’s usually done.
Obviously, tons of people had a jersey with number 22, but Gary Bettman accepted.
It was really special for me to be able to do that in honor of Johnny.”
Cole Caufield
In the excerpt, we then see what happens behind the scenes when this number change takes place, and it’s clear that it brings a lot of logistics.
Following this change, Cole signed more than 1,800 jerseys!
You read that right 1,800! All the details are in the following video:
“A new scene from The Rebuild: Season 2, the Canadiens’ behind-the-scenes documentary.
After changing his jersey to number 13 in honor of Johnny Gaudreau, Cole spent hours signing Caufield number 22 jerseys.
He signed 1,800 jerseys.”
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Clearly, Caufield worked hard to make this number change happen.. And kudos to Gary Bettman for accepting it!
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