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Preview: Bruins begin road trip in Las Vegas

Just the facts​

• When: Tonight, 10 PM
• Where: T-Mobile Arena – Las Vegas, NV
• How to follow: NESN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
• Opposing perspective: Knights on Ice

Know your enemy​

• 2-0-2, 6PTS, 1st in the Pacific Division
• Jack Eichel: 4G-5A-9PTS; Mark Stone: 0G-6A-6PTS; Pavel Dorofeyev: 5G-0A-5PTS
• Akira Schmid: 2-0-0, 1.80 GAA, .929 save percentage

Game notes​

• After a couple of days off in sunny Nevada, the Bruins begin a three-game road trip tonight by visiting the Pacific-leading Golden Knights.
• Fresh off of an eight-year, $108-million contract extension, Jack Eichel is off to a flying start for Vegas. The future Bruin (hey, it could still happen) has a whopping nine points in just four games, including four goals.
• High-profile acquisition Mitch Marner hasn’t scored yet for Vegas, but does have four assists to his name.
• Similar to Eichel, it’s been a hot start for Vegas winger Pavel Dorofeyev, who has five goals in his team’s first four games. He had a career-best 35 goals and 52 points last season.
• Former Bruin Jeremy Lauzon landed with Vegas this summer after four seasons in Nashville.
• The first four games of this season for Vegas have all featured some kind of intrigue or excitement. Their season-opener was a 6-5 shootout loss, followed by back-to-back OT games (one win, one loss). Vegas finally won a regulation game last time out, but that game saw them turn a 2-0 deficit into a 4-2 win.
• Goalie Adin Hill left that 4-2 win over Calgary with a lower-body injury. Massachusetts native Noah Hanifin has been injured since the season opener as well.
• For the Bruins, Hampus Lindholm traveled with the team and is questionable for tonight’s game. The Boston Globe guesses it may have been a hamstring injury for Lindholm, which is concerning, but better than something related to his knee injury from last year.

See ya tonight!

Source: https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com...7/preview-bruins-begin-road-trip-in-las-vegas

 

[Boston Bruins]

Preview/Public Skate: Tomorrow is a Latter Day

Just the Facts​

• The Time: 7pm EST
• The Place: Delta Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Place to Watch: NESN, NHL Network, Utah-16, TVAS, SportsNet 360, ESPN+
• Place to Listen: 98.5 The Sports Hub

Know Your Enemy​

• The Mammoth are 3-2-0, and are 4th in the Central Division; tied with the St. Louis Blues.
• Nick Schmaltz has once again taken up the mantle of points-getter on the Mammoth, though a recent trip to San Jose juiced that quite a bit. He’s got 7 points in 5 games and leads the team in scoring with 3 goals.
• Once again the Mammoth place their faith in Karel Vejmelka. He’s largely rewarded them so far, with a .912 SV% and a 3-1-0 record.

Game Preview​

I’ve been very interested in this Mammoth team for a minute now. Maybe not in a “adopted western team” way, but more like the way you watch an insect wander around an enclosure.

Last year, they were one of the most impactful teams at 5v5 and yet didn’t make the playoffs, and that has followed them into 2025-26. They are good at getting unblocked shots to the net, and arguably even better at creating quality shots for themselves. Are they perfect? Hell no; they do not attack the middle of the ice almost as a matter of principle at even strength, nearly the entirety of their defense pairings are hot dog water and early returns on their offseason suggest that JJ Peterka will remain the highlight, as just about everybody else they got has been kind of bad. But they’re just good enough in a weird Western Conference that I could see a couple of sell-offs early allowing them to cement their position as 1st wildcard team for a good long while. A lot of what I see here says they probably won’t make it…but part of me wonders if they could.

Meanwhile, Boston got as hard a wakeup call as anyone can give this team in the form of the Colorado Avalanche last night, and the less said about this, the better! What it proved is that while Marco Sturm has definitely figured out a way to get these guys to give a s#!t, this is still very much a work in progress roster construction and against good teams, you can feel the gulf in talent down in your bones. Look no further than a Mikey Eyssimont ending up in the top 6 by some trick of the mind. You can only bring up how your grinders were your best players so often when like 75% of your roster could qualify for that label.

Boston would like to finish up this little western road trip with their dignity intact, so hopefully they can just take a breath, bury the game tape from yesterday out in the salt flats, and move on to winning tonight.

We’ll see you there.

Source: https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com...preview-public-skate-tomorrow-is-a-latter-day