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Let's get into it for this week, Mick.

The only news that I saw this morning, well, a few things going on, right? Like captain's practices and availability will be happening this week.

So I'm sure we will be talking to Bruins players.

There will be some level of news coming out.

The golf tournament, the annual kickoff for the Bruins season, you know, the first thing on the docket is Wednesday.

So that'll be interesting.

We'll talk to Marco Sturm and a bunch of different players at that per usual.

And, you know, things are starting to kick off.

Bruins rookie camp will be starting and everything gets going this week.

Really, when you got the email basically from the Bruins laying out the availability for this week, it felt like, all right, hockey's back on.

This is it.

The Labor Day is over and summer's over and hockey is back.

And it's like that at the youth levels too, where practices are starting to crank up.

Games are cranking up like everything's getting going.

So it's a great time of year.

Very exciting.

The one little bit of news that we got today was just an update, which was obvious anyway, that the December 1st game between the Bruins and the Colorado Avalanche, where Patrice Bergeron will be getting his number 37 raised to the rafters.

The game will officially start at 8 o'clock.

That's the start time the NHL announced.

And given the amount of pregame pomp and circumstance and festivity that's going to be going on with this game, I'm surprised we're even going to be able to get it off at 8 because I'm sure there's going to be a lot of stuff happening beforehand.

But mark that one in your calendars to get your fannies in the seats early for that December 1st game and prepare for a late night because the game's going to start at 8 o'clock.

o'clock.I think when I first saw the, uh, the re- the initial release, uh, saying the game, I think it was gonna start at 7:30, uh, when they had said that before today's update to 8:00, I, I remember thinking, "What are they gonna do? Start the, the s- festivities at 2:00 PM?" I mean [laughs]

Yeah.

Everybody gonna get out of work early that day, or is school gonna let out early? I mean, what's gonna happen because this is, uh, a d- I mean, Terry O'Reilly in the, you know, post Bob Orr, Terry O'Reilly has to have held the title as most beloved Bruin in his generation.

Yep.