SHAWINIGAN - It's roughly an hour and a half drive from Saint-Hyacinthe to Shawinigan, Quebec without traffic or snow on the ground, which is a rarity during the hockey season.
It's a drive Anthony Beauvillier knows well, and he claims he can get there with his eyes closed, though he needs to make a quick course correction after he starts veering towards the the wrong onramp - towards Montreal - when getting on the highway.
The drive is a jaunt through rural Quebec that passes east through Drummondville, before doubling back northwest through Trois-Rivieres, the third biggest city in the province, but until then, farmland outnumbers buildings and towns by a healthy margin.
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