MONTREAL – 2025 is winding down, and while many are looking forward to the holiday season, others are looking further ahead.

With the New Year upon us, some people are eyeing January as the perfect time to start a new chapter, work on developing healthy habits or set some goals for the next chapter. For Sebastian Buna, January will always be an important month: the Canadiens’ assistant athletic therapist will be celebrating his seventh anniversary of being cancer free.

The 36-year-old native of the West Island was diagnosed with what turned out to be testicular cancer in December 2018.

Nothing can prepare someone to hear that they have cancer. To receive such news on Christmas Day adds to the unfathomableness of it all.

“The doc called and said, ‘We think it's cancer and you're going t

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