In Photos: Bespoke Montreal Canadiens leather playoff jackets sported by Patrik Laine, Nick Suzuki's fiancees and partners of other players

Modified Apr 26, 2025 17:59 GMT

The Canadiens secured their second win in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, beating the Washington Capitals 6-3 in Game 3 on Friday. Partners of several Habs players were in attendance at Bell Centre during the game, sporting matching playoff jackets.

Habs captain Nick Suzuki’s fiancée, Caitlin Fitzgerald, shared a series of stories on her Instagram account on Saturday featuring their game day experience. One of the stories showed Caitlin and the group wearing their matching red Canadiens jackets with players’ names and numbers on the back.

The story was originally posted by Habs forward Jake Evans’ wife, Emily.

Caitlin then shared a short clip of the group heading through the parking area of Bell Centre. The third story showed the whole group posing together outside Bell Centre, including Patrik Laine’s fiancée, Jordan Leigh.

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It has been a longstanding tradition among the partners of NHL players to sport matching custom jackets during the playoffs. This year’s jackets featured the colors red and white. On the back, each had a large white number and the last name of a Canadiens player, while the left sleeve featured a white Canadiens logo patch.

Nick Suzuki’s fiancee once disclosed what Habs’ captain ‘sucks at’

Earlier this year, Nick Suzuki’s fiancée, Caitlin Fitzgerald, made an appearance on the "Never Offside with Julie & Cat" podcast. During the episode, Caitlin shared that Suzuki is highly skilled at almost every board game, often winning to the point that she avoids playing any game with him.

“He is, it's really annoying,” she said. "So I don't like to play games with him. No matter what it is, he always wins and it's so annoying. Like I won't play Scrabble with him. I don't, I don't like playing games with him at all.”

When asked if there was anything Suzuki was not good at, Caitlin shared that it was cooking.

“OK, there we go. He sucks at cooking,” she said. "He can cook, not that well. If I was like, ‘Nick make dinner,’ he'd make dinner. But I prefer to eat what I make.”

The "Never Offside with Julie & Cat" podcast is hosted by Detroit Red Wings defenseman Jeff Petry’s wife, Jules, and Cat Toffoli, who is the wife of San Jose Sharks forward Tyler Toffoli. The show gives a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of NHL players’ spouses, where they discuss topics such as family life, travel and game day routines.

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Anjum is an NHL reporter at Sportskeeda with over five years of professional experience in the industry. Having an educational background in Media Studies, she strives to present information in a clear and unbiased manner, so that all perspectives are considered and represented fairly.

Anjum prioritizes thorough research, fact-checking and verification of sources when reporting, and has worked for the Nation of Blaugrana, Barca International Cules, FromTheBend, Last Word On Sports and NASA.

She got interested in ice hockey after watching the “MVP” trilogy as a second grader and has not gotten over the sport yet. Her favorite player is Alex Ovechkin, whose legendary one-timers live rent free in her heart. The iconic moment when Ovechkin reached 800 career goals with a hat trick in Chicago as the away crowd chanted “Ovi, Ovi” is probably her happiest memory from an ice-rink.

She is a self-taught musician, loves silversmithing and can be found at her workbench if she’s not watching or writing about sports.

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