from Cathal Kelly of the Globe and Mail,

From a distance, this looked like a stunt. A sort of ghoulish team-building field trip.

That’s not what it seemed like from close up. It looked like every proper send-off – banal in its generalities and gut wrenching in its particulars.

Hours later, after what remains of France St. Louis had been carried the hundred yards from her farewell gathering to her grave, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault was still in danger of weeping while addressing the press.

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