10/23/2014 AT 05:05 PM EDT
In the wake of the shootings in Ottawa on Wednesday, grief went beyond borders for two Pennsylvania hockey teams, and left NHL fans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, singing a different tune during a game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Before the game, the sold-out crowd at Pittsburgh's Consol Energy Center joined Jeff Jimerson in a rendition of "O Canada" as a tribute to fallen soldier Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, who was killed in the attack at Ottawa's National War Memorial, while two maple leaves were projected onto the ice.
"I thought it was a special tribute tonight," Penguins coach Mike Johnston, who was born in Canada, told The New York Post . "Certainly when those events happen, they strike everybody."
Michael Joseph Hall, 32, who converted to Islam under the name Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, killed Cirillo, who was guarding the National War Memorial, then opened fire in Parliament.
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