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Canadiens defenceman Zach Redmond had a very interesting childhood, to say the least.

Redmond is a triplet, along with brother Alex and sister Meghan, all born on July 26, 1988. Redmond’s mother, Kim, remembers going for an ultrasound along with her mother after becoming pregnant.

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“The doctor said: ‘Oh, here’s your baby … the heartbeat,” Kim recalled during a recent phone interview. “Then he went: ‘Oh, there’s another one.’ And my mother goes: ‘Oh, my gosh, twins!’ Then when they got to the third one, I said: ‘Stop! Please don’t tell me there’s more.'”

Kim laughed when recalling the story, but raising triplets is no laughing matter. Kim called it “organized chaos” and recalled one day when all three babies were screaming at the same time and she was at her wits’ end. She reached for the phone and called an organization named The Triplet Connection.

“I said: ‘Oh, my God, what do I do? How do I handle this?’ ” Kim recalled with another laugh. “And they said: ‘A baby has never died from crying.’ ”