Montreal Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis looks on from the bench in the second period of an NHL game against the Colorado Avalanche on Nov. 29, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Montreal Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis looks on from the bench in the second period of an NHL game against the Colorado Avalanche on Nov. 29, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
MONTREAL - Montreal Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis sent his thoughts to the community at Brown University - where his son Ryan is a student and hockey player - a day after a campus shooting left two people dead and nine others wounded.
鈥淗e was on campus yesterday, so he was sheltering during last night鈥檚 game,鈥 St. Louis said at the start of his post-game news conference after a 4-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. 鈥淚t's a tragedy, it hit home. I want to send my thoughts and prayers to everybody involved, the students, the families, that community. Stuff like that shouldn't happen.
鈥淗e's safe, he's back home, but it was a difficult time for everyone. So my thoughts go out to Brown and the community.鈥
The attack Saturday afternoon during final exams set off hours of chaos on the Ivy League campus in Providence, R.I., as hundreds of officers searched for the shooter and urged students and staff to shelter in place.聽
The lockdown stretched into the night and was lifted early Sunday. Later in the day, officials said a person of interest who was detained after the shooting had been released.
Authorities said the investigation was continuing. They had yet to release information about a potential motive.
Ryan St. Louis, 22, is in playing his third season for the Brown men鈥檚 hockey team.
NBA coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors, an outspoken advocate for gun control laws, also addressed the tragedy Sunday before a game in Portland.
鈥淚t鈥檚 just a reminder to me that these shootings continue to happen and there is something we can do about them,鈥 said Kerr, whose father Malcolm Kerr was killed in Beirut in 1984. 鈥淭he loss that all of the people involved last night, the loss that they鈥檙e feeling, it鈥檚 exactly the same loss as all the Parkland families, and every other mass shooting. Nobody asked me about it today. I didn鈥檛 expect anybody to ask me.
鈥淚t鈥檚 human nature just to think, 鈥楾his is so horrible. Let鈥檚 just not even think about it.鈥 But, we have to think about it.鈥
鈥 With files from The Associated Press.
This report by 好色tvwas first published Dec. 14, 2025.
