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After the Canadiens’ Charles Hudon scored his first NHL goal in Monday night’s 8-3 win over the Senators in Ottawa, he pointed skyward as part of his celebration.

He did the same thing after scoring his second goal later in the game and will continue to do so after every other goal he scores in the NHL, he says.

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Hudon does it as a tribute to his friend Nicholas Antonelli, who was killed six years ago at age 17 after being hit by a drunk driver while walking home from a party.

Hudon was born in Alma, but his family moved to St-Bruno when he was 7 and that’s where he met Antonelli, who was the goalie on his atom and novice hockey teams.

“Since that time, we were always together,” Hudon recalled in the Canadiens’ dressing room after Monday’s game. “We weren’t together a lot the last two years (of Antonelli’s life) because I was playing for Chicoutimi (in junior), so it was pretty far and he was in soccer.