Bruins Schedule Presents Interesting Challenges

Originally posted on The Hockey Writers
By Brandon Share-Cohen | Last updated 10/22/21

With the 2021-22 NHL season fully underways, fans have gotten a chance to watch their favorite teams take to the ice and compete at hockey’s highest level for nearly two weeks. While most fans got a chance to watch their teams play early on, fans of the Boston Bruins had to wait until the fifth day of the season, after 29 other teams had already made their debuts. The only two other teams to not play at least one game before the Bruins’ first game of the season are the Calgary Flames and San Jose Sharks who also had to wait for their opening night.

With the Bruins only kicking off their season on Oct. 16, 2021, it would make sense for the team to then play with a little more frequency early on to level out their schedule relative to other teams around the league. Instead, though, the Bruins will play only three games in the first nine days of the season, the second of which coming five days after the first. In the same month, though, they’ll also have to play three games in four nights to close out the month with back-to-back games against the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes followed by one night off before a rematch with the Panthers.

After that, the team will have four days off, followed by another stretch of five days off in a row in the middle of November, sandwiched between two sets of back-to-backs, including a three-games in four-nights from the 11th to the 14th.

The Bruins schedule actually contains multiple three-in-four situations this season, totaling 10 in all, including a stretch of six games in nine nights to close out their season in April.

This article first appeared on The Hockey Writers and was syndicated with permission.

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