Welcome to the first Friday in September, folks!
Fortunately for you, there will be no Cehptember this year, but Slovaktober is still being discussed.
Apologies for the lack of new content this week, as a couple of sick kids and back-to-school season kind of got in the way of more important website pursuits. We’ll get there.
The B’s unofficially returned to action earlier this week, with the players holding two captains’ practices at Warrior Arena.
The sessions were pretty well attended, with players
present including Charlie McAvoy, David Pastrnak, Nikita Zadorov, Fabian Lysell, Mark Kastelic, Mason Lohrei, and Casey Mittelstadt.
As you may have anticipated, a lot of the post-practice media questions centered around captaincy, or lack thereof in the Bruins’ case.
All players asked emphasized the importance of having a group of leaders, not just one or two guys, so it doesn’t appear the team is too worried about a leadership void.
(But Pastrnak should still be the captain.)
Elsewhere, Jeremy Swayman spoke to the media and said that he changed “everything” this summer and he’s “a completely different human being” compared to last year at this point, so…I think that’s good?
This isn’t Bruins-related, but NHL.com also had an interesting piece on Gavin McKenna’s decision to attend Penn State and how the NCAA route is becoming increasingly appealing to top NHL prospects.
Finally, in a sure sign that the season isn’t too far away, the Bruins posted some photos of the new sheet of ice at TD Garden, featuring the team’s new spoked-B:
I enjoyed how many people clamored for the return of the yellow seats in the comments of that Tweet.
While there’s probably a 0.0000001% chance those seats will ever come back, it’s important to have dreams.
Anyways, first weekend in September — what’s on tap for today?
