It's great practicing outdoors like that.
It's definitely a dream, a bucket list experience for any hockey player. Coming into today, everybody was excited. You saw everybody looking like they were back in the day, going to the pond and stuff like that.
The feeling was great and practice was cool. It just creates the fun of being a hockey player sometimes, little events like that. And the skate after with the families and the kids of the families, it's just good to bring everyone here.
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It's been a hard couple of years for everyone's family maybe not being together and stuff, so it's nice to see everyone being together and enjoying stuff like that. It's definitely a good experience everyone was looking forward to.
We got to come into Boston and celebrate the new year last night with each other and with each other's families. Those are definitely memories that everyone is going to keep for a long time.
I came to Fenway once for a baseball game, but now it's a different experience. Still, it's definitely above what I thought and expected. My level of excitement is above 100. It's going to be a really cool experience tomorrow.
The second you got on the ice, you felt that the ice was smaller than usual because it's so big around and there's so much room outside of the ice. It's definitely a special moment.
When we were coming in, driving in, we saw Big Papi's name (former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz) and all of the names on the wall. It's an iconic place to be. We're sitting in the same spot as some of the best players in Major League Baseball, so it's definitely a good experience and a cool feeling.
