Welcome to Black Friday, folks!
Public Skate: Bruins vs. Rangers
Get a good Black Friday deal on hockey or something.
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Hope you had a good Thanksgiving/Thursday. Sorry about the lack of official preview for today’s game, but Thanksgiving Night got away from me a bit.
Here are your basics:
- The Bruins will host the Rangers at TD Garden today, with a 1 PM(ish) start.
- The game, billed the “Thanksgiving Showdown,” will be broadcast on TNT and HBOMax. You can catch the radio broadcast on 98.5 The Sports Hub.
- This is the first meeting of the regular season between these two teams, though they played a coupled of times in the preseason.
The Rangers haven’t had the best start to the season, as they sit at the bottom of the Metropolitan Division with a record of 12-11-2.
It’s worth pointing out, however, that they’re not far afield, as the first-place Devils are just five points ahead.
The Rangers are winners of two in a row, the latest being a 4-2 win over Carolina on Wednesday that may not have been the deserved result.
On the Bruins side of things, they’ll be hoping for a better team-wide performance than they saw on Wednesday night in Long Island, a game in which they got solid contributions from their grinders but ultimately got bailed out by Jeremy Swayman.
Based on his current form and a day off in between games, I’d figure that Swayman will start again this afternoon, but Marco Sturm may choose to continue to rotate his goalies with a game against Detroit on the schedule for tomorrow.
That Saturday night game against the Red Wings will be at TD Garden, then the Bruins will visit Detroit on Tuesday night. Another weird “hey, you again” point in the schedule.
Anyways, heat up your leftovers and find a preferred spot on the couch for this afternoon’s game. It should be a good one, even if it should be at 11 AM.
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