Curti makes strong start with Riders
Charlie Curti has played hockey since he was 4 years old, but he knew he wasn't in Mound, Minn., anymore when he played his first game for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders last Friday.
The occasion was the USHL season opener in Lincoln, Neb.
"It was something else," Curti said Thursday after practice at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. "I mean, 4,000 people is the most I've every played in front of. It definitely got loud.
"The first couple of shifts we were kind of thinking, 'What are we doing here?' But then you settle in and you just play hockey. It was great."
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