Driving along First Avenue in downtown Saint-Georges, you get the feeling that the emphasis of the road funnels towards the Centre Sportif Lacroix-Dutil. There are restaurants, bars, banks, and shops, but when you finally go around the last left turn, you see the arena.
The arena looks relatively new and it dwarfs the surrounding area. There is a huge electronic sign that flashes events across the street to the left of the arena in the middle of a parking lot. The lot was full more than an hour before the game was set to start.
The sign showed that night’s game between Les Canadiennes and the Boston Blades, but the teams were secondary to what was beneath it.