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There was a cute scene at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard two Saturdays ago when the Canadiens held their morning skate.

There was a larger-than-usual crowd standing two and three deep behind the glass above the practice rink and a woman knocked on the door to the press box asking the security guard if her two young boys could step inside to get a better view. The security guard paused for a couple of seconds — probably trying to figure out how to politely say no — when the woman said: “They’re Max Pacioretty’s kids.”

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The guard let 3-year-old Lorenzo and 1-year-old Maximus in — along with Pacioretty’s wife, Katia — so they could watch their dad on the ice below. Lorenzo started waving at his father, trying to get his attention.

“(Katia) told me it happened, but I didn’t see them,” Pacioretty said after the Canadiens practised Wednesday in Brossard. “I think Enzo was a little upset … he said: ‘You didn’t wave to me.’ ”