“It’s nice to have a smaller group and a lot of the [familiar] guys out there to bring the pace up a bit,” Bruins forward Brad Marchand said following Tuesday’s practice at TD Garden. “It’s good to start getting comfortable with the guys a little bit more and that means we’re getting closer to the season, so that’s nice.”
Indeed, we are that much closer to the start of the 2018-19 regular season. Eight days, to be exact, until the Bruins face off against the defending Stanley Cup Champion Capitals in D.C.
But this last week of the preseason has a little different feeling compared to years past.