Charlie McAvoy, familiar with keeping opponents out of the Bruins zone, climbed the Great Wall of China alongside teammates on Sunday.
McAvoy noted leaving his comfort zone for Shenzhen was “a whole lot easier” as part of Boston’s close-knit group.
“We all experience it together and it feels that much better, that much more comfortable when you come over here and you’re with this group,” McAvoy said, per NHL.com’s Amalie Benjamin. “I definitely could see it paying off in a big way.”
The defenseman reported for the start of training camp in Boston Tuesday morning, then travelled nearly 8,000 miles across the globe for the NHL China Games.