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It’s the middle of summer, so that means a lot of the clerical stuff for pre-season is coming out. For Boston, it means the schedule has been announced and posted!
The Bruins will play the New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, and Washington Capitals twice over the course of a week and change, starting on Sunday, September 22nd and ending on October 3rd. All’s normal there for preseason; keeping things local-ish to the Northeast is standard practice.
The interesting one is a game north of the border against a team they generally don’t see very often; the Los Angeles Kings.
The B’s will meet the Kings in their updated sweaters for a little preseason friendly in QC on October 3rd, as a fun little treat for the long suffering people of Quebec City now that Bergeron could theoretically call himself a local legend, or…to keep the knife of losing the Nordiques nice and deep. This could still be you, QC!*
While I’m no betting man, the ability to watch these games on NESN’s platform will likely be extremely inconsistent. Gotta love those RSN restrictions!*
But still! Going to the Videotron Centre will be cool, and I’m sure we’ll all get some warm 90’s feelings from the Gretzky-Era Kings sweaters they’ll be lightly updating for the modern era. Maybe we’ll do some Remember Some Guys from that time!
Until then, let’s tuck these games away for future use and get ready for next season!
* = It was never going to be you, QC.
** = You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to the RSNs for their inconsistent broadcast schedules. The Red Sox aren’t going to be flirting with competency that long.
