When Carey Price was introduced in the Montreal Canadiens starting lineup, and even when he first stepped onto the ice, the Bell Centre was rocking. It didn’t matter that the Canadiens were in 31st place. For the first time in at least two years, the Bell Centre felt like the Bell Centre.
You don’t even need to be from Montreal, or to have taken in a game in person to know what that means. It is one of the few arenas that can claim that. When Michel Lacroix starts talking, the music plays, and it just hits different.