https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/tyler-bozak-toronto-maple-leafs-nhl


It takes 35 steps to get from the home locker room of the ACC to the ice.

The doors open, and you can hear the rumble of the crowd — it’s still quiet. As you turn right, following the sound, it starts to build. You take a few more steps before you reach one of the quirks that makes the building unique to the NHL: the stairs to the ice. You have to go down five steps before you reach ice-level. Then you pass this little roped-off section of fans, and that’s when it — that particular feeling — starts to hit your gut. By now, the noise is deafening. The building is rocking. You can barely hear the music beneath the roar of the crowd. You can see the blue lights bouncing off the stainless steel walls of the tunnel.

Just a few more steps, and you’re out of the darkness, into the blue...

:siro: