He Proposed To His Partner Of Many Years In Downtown Detroit
After being chosen by the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League draft in 2005, Justin Abdelkader is quickly becoming one of the most well-known players in the sport of ice hockey. His wife, Julie Leshkevich, had worked as a teaching assistant in the past, and the two of them first crossed paths while they were both students at Michigan State University.
At the Joe Louis Arena in downtown Detroit, Abdelkader surprised his long-term girlfriend by popping the question. In front of their nearest and dearest friends and family, Leshkevich and Abdelkader exchanged their “I do”atop the Detroit Opera House in the year 2017, and Leshkevich gave birth to the couple’s first child in September of 2018.