The Utah Hockey Club got the full Toronto experience Sunday night ahead of their first-ever matchup against the Maple Leafs—bumper-to-bumper traffic that forced the team to walk to the game.
“I think that’s a first for everyone. Never saw that before,” Utah defenceman Maveric Lamoureux tells the camera that documented the team’s stroll to Scotiabank Arena.
Lamoureux said the team’s bus was “not moving at all” in the Sunday evening traffic, just hours after the Santa Claus Parade and resulting road closures.
“So it’s pretty much the whole team walking the street,” he said, noting that they would probably miss their 5:15 p.m. pre-game meeting.
Whats more embarassing is that regular citizens have to deal with this shit tier traffic every day. (And by traffic, i mean all the drivers who collectively all decide to drive downtown and then complain there are too many cars on the road).
Willy Nylander takes transit to the arena all the time.
Oh yeah, and this is the same city that is planning on tearing up a bunch of bike lanes so that MORE drivers will bring their cars downtown. (Technically, its not the city’s decision…)
The sad part was the team was taking transit, of a sort. It was a charter bus, but it was still a bus, so it was one vehicle for a 30 or 40 people.