Boston Bruins (38-6-5) @ Carolina Hurricanes (31-9-8)
2022-23 Regular Season — Game 49
Sunday, January 29, 2023 — 5:00 pm ET
PNC Arena — Raleigh, NC
Twenty-three of the NHL’s 32 teams are in their CBA-mandated bye week, which aligns with the All-Star Break to provide a weeklong midseason break from the grueling grind of the league schedule. The other nine teams’ byes are delayed a week, mostly as an olive branch to national broadcasters who would not be thrilled with needing to fill programming holes for a full week.
Two of those nine clubs, in a significant bit of good fortune for the NHL, are two of the top teams in the league, and they will face off this afternoon at PNC Arena.