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Karl Subban is counting his blessings these days.

Just over a month after his son Malcolm, a goaltender, was rushed to a hospital with a fractured larynx after taking a puck to the throat during a pregame warm-up with the AHL’s Providence Bruins, his oldest son, P.K., was taken off the ice on a stretcher at the Bell Centre on Thursday night with a neck injury that turned out not to be serious. Jordan, the third son of Karl and Maria Subban, has also been injured this season as a defenceman with the AHL’s Utica Comets.

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“It was Jordan first, then Malcolm, now P.K.,” Karl said during a phone interview Friday night. “They say things happen in threes, so I’m hoping that we’ve used them all up.”

Karl and Maria were out of the country on Thursday night while P.K. lay on the ice at the Bell Centre for eight minutes before being taken off on a stretcher late in the third period of the Canadiens’ 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres following a collision with teammate Alexei Emelin. Normally, Karl watches the Canadiens games on his iPad when he’s out of the country, but he was having trouble with his Internet connection Thursday and both he and his wife were tired, so they went to bed early.