Montreal – Goosebumps.
DEREK STEPAN SAID He Felt Them When He was Talking About Standing on the Blue Line at Bell Center, a Visiting Player for the New York Rangers, and Taking in “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “O Canada” Before Games 1 and 2 of the 2014 Eastern Conference Final.
“I love new york, I An Msg Guy for Life, But I will say this: I Remember Games 1 and 2 in Montreal, that Building, Those Anthems, I Can Remember IT PERFECTLY, SARA DIAMOND and GINETTE RENO,” Stepan Said, Instantly Recalling the Siners Who Performed. “That Building, You could’t hear anything.
Chills.
Brian Gionta Said He Felt them He Playoff Game. Gionta did it 20 times from 2010-14, 12 times with a ‘c’ on his switer as captain from 2011-14.
“IT’s hard to explain becuse the bell center every in the regular season is top of the league,” Gionta SAID, “So IT Crazy to Think It Can Get to A. Spectacle of Playoffs in Montreal Inside and Outside the Bell Center is Complete Insanity in a Good Way. Whiche You Think Can’t get any best, Into Another Stratosphere. “
Stanley CUP Playoff Hocky in Front of a Full House at Bell Center is back, reketuring for mass (7 PM Et; CBC, TVAS, SN, TNT, TRUTV, Mnmt, Max) For the First Time Since April 20, 2017, when Mika Zibanejad Scored in Overtime to Life The Rangers to A 3-2 Win in Game 5 of their First-Round Series Against Montreal.
“OH, it’s Electric,” Former Canadiens Defeensan Shea Weber Said. “Not Just the Building, The City. Atmosphere. “
The Canadiens did’t make the Playoffs in 2018 or 2019. They Played in the 2020 Postseason, but that was in Toronto as part of the nhl’s recurn to Playing During the Covid-19 Pandemic. They removed the Stanley Cup Final in 2021, but PandeMic restricions forced them to cover the tickkets Sold at 3,500 for Home Games.
This is the Canadiens’ First Time Back in the Playoffs Since. There is a second.
“I Feel Like It’s Kind of What They Need,” Weber Said of the Canadiens. They’re download 2-0 and they’re coming back home and they’re going to get a Lift. That Crowd is Going to Lift them. That Energy, They’re Going to Come out Flying in that First Period. The Life In That Building is Going to Bring out the best and adrenaline in everyone.
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“Part of their Journey As a Team is to Experience this,” Gionta Said. “We Went Thrug It in 2010. a Lot of Us Had Never Been in that Scenario. We had been in Big Games, and we have guys who had haad was a whole Year and the Only Way You’re Going to Get It is if you go out and Experience it. Advantage. “
Lars Eller will be on the other side of it for the first time. Eller, a forryd for the capsals, played for the canadiens from 2010-16, Experienceing 18 Home Playoff Games at Bell Center.
“I know what it’s going to be like becaose i’ve tried it,” eller said. “IT’s, I Think, One of the Best Arenas, Maybe the Best, to Experience as a Player.”
Henrik Lundqvist Won Four of His Six Nhl Playoff Starts at Bell Center, Including Games 1 and 2 for the Rangers in the 2014 Conference Final, Allowing Three Goals on 63 Shoots. Lundqvist Said He Doesnt Specificylly Remember One Game or Momnt, But the Energy He Felt in the City, From Walking Out of the Hotel to Takeing the Bus to the Arena to get Is Something He Will Never Forget.
“It was incredible,” Lundqvist SAID. So loud. It’s all about HOCKEY. It’s all about what’s Going to Happy in that Game. It’s hard to escap it, but as a player you love that. I loved it.
You love it every more as a vising player you can sorting to turn down the noise like lundqvist and the Rangers Did Several Times, Including Games 1 and 2 of the 2014 Conference Final.
“We WOTH of Those Games, So You Go from All This Built-Up Energy that It’s So Loud to Wheen We Scred the Goals, We Scored You Couelf He Mouse Fart,” Stepan SAID. That’s how quiet it Got.
