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Pitre’s mother, Tina Boileau, said she was contacted last week by Jim Britt, manager of team operations for the Penguins. He told her Crosby had been following Jonathan’s story and wanted to have a suit tailored for him so that he could walk into the rink, just like an NHL player, in the kind of business suit that would make Don Cherry proud. Boileau took her son’s measurements and sent them to Crosby’s favourite tailor in Montreal.

Jonathan had been invited to the game by an Ottawa couple, Deborah and Michael Gerbis.

Though some fans can be a little TOO sharply dressed

Used to be a thing where some people would get tickets for lower-corner seats in hockey arenas, and then, when the play drew close to them, stand and wave to the TV camera they knew would be panning across their section of the crowd. “Hey look! I’m on TV!”

It was a distraction for viewers at home and an even bigger annoyance, no doubt, to the fans seated nearby.

We don’t see this happening so much anymore, probably because of the spread of the unwritten rule that allows other spectators to put bubble gum on the seats of people who do this.

But we’ve noticed a new “Look at me” trend in which certain fans will wear neon-green or fluorescent yellow jackets and shirts to stand out. We’ve seen this at NHL games in several cities, though the tactic may be less successful in certain arenas where vendors and other staff are in bright green uniforms.

No one would dare try this in wear-white Winnipeg, it’s true, but we did spot a fan in bright yellow behind the visitor’s net in Ottawa Sunday. And a Calgary spectator Tuesday even drew the attention of Twitter users and TV commentators for wearing a green-yellow sweatshirt (the exact shade is known as “vile,” we believe) in the Sea of Red that is the Saddledome.