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No surprise that P.K. Subban would be associated with the hottest ticket in town. The surprise is, however, that the ticket is not for a hockey game at the Bell Centre, but rather for a humour spectacle at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in Place des Arts.

The 27-year-old all-star defenceman will be donning another sweater when he hosts the P.K. Subban All-Star Comedy gala to close out the 34th edition of the Just for Laughs festival on Aug. 1. The event is a fundraiser for Subban’s foundation benefiting the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation, to which he has pledged to raise $10 million.

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Some might choose to regard the soirée as more Just for Tears than Just for Laughs. Regardless of the sketches featuring Subban and the chuckles being cranked out by Dom Irrera and Jeremy Hotz, among the other standups on the bill, the evening could have a decidedly sombre tone. It will be, after all, something akin to P.K.’s official going-away party before he leaves these parts and heads south to join his new team, the Nashville Predators.