Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and his wife Hannah had her parents over for a barbecue in June 2014, less than a week after getting the keys to their new house in Sweden.
That’s when they learned they were moving out in three months.
Bellemare, then 29, agreed to an NHL contract with the Philadelphia Flyers and needed to leave for the U.S. It completed a hectic journey for the Golden Knights center, who never dreamed about making such a move while growing up in his native France.
“For me, it’s so little hockey in France and it’s such a big deal for me, for my country to be here,” Bellemare said during an appearance Wednesday on the Review-Journal’s Golden Edge podcast.