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On Aug. 9 at 10 a.m., fans will be able to purchase tickets for all Coyotes home games throughout the season. That includes the first home game of the season against the Boston Bruins on Oct. 5. Several of the NHL’s best players will be coming to Arizona. Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers will come to town on Nov. 24. Three-time Stanley Cup champion Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins, along with former Coyotes forward Alex Galchenyuk, roll into Gila River Area on Jan. 12. Nikita Kucherov, who won last season’s Hart Trophy, and Vezina Trophy winner Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning will visit Arizona on Feb. 22. On Nov. 21, Arizona native Auston Matthews and the Toronto Maple Leafs will make their only appearance of the year at Gila River Arena. The Coyotes will also host the Stanley Cup Champion St. Louis Blues on New Year’s Eve. Arizona Sports LOADED: 08.08.2019 1107609 Arizona Coyotes Arizona Coyotes to appear twice on NBCSN in 2019-20 season Staff Report BY ARIZONA SPORTS AUGUST 7, 2019 AT 7:01 AM NBC Sports Network announced its national NHL broadcast schedule for the 2019-20 season on Tuesday, and the Arizona Coyotes appeared on it twice. Arizona’s NHL team will face its desert foe, the Vegas Golden Knights, in both matchups. Those games will appear live on NBCSN nationwide on March 18 and March 25, which both are Wednesday nights. The Coyotes are 3-3-3 all-time against Vegas, which enters its third season of existence. Both of the NBCSN games are the second game in a double-header on the network, the first one following a Penguins at Rangers game and the second one following a Penguins at Blackhawks game. “We are thrilled to showcase our #OwnTheDesert rivalry in front of a national audience for multiple games this season,” said Coyotes president & CEO Ahron Cohen in a release from the team. “We take great pride in showing everyone across the country that hockey not only belongs but thrives in the desert.” The last time the Coyotes were on NBCSN, they beat the Sharks at home on Jan. 13 by a score of 6-3, which snapped a seven-game win streak for San Jose. Arizona Sports LOADED: 08.08.2019 1107610 Boston Bruins “Knowing Brad, that will bother him, but he’s got to shake it off like we all do,” said Neely. “The rear-view mirror is broken. You can learn from the past, but I don’t want our players dwelling on the past.” Bruins Core Concerns: Brad Marchand looking to rebound from Game 7 A motivated Marchand hellbent on revenge? That’s something most gaffe Bruins fans wouldn’t mind seeing if it means he torches and torments all opponents in his path next year. By Joe Haggerty Key stat: 23 – Despite slackening just a little bit during the Stanley Cup Final, Marchand finished tied for the NHL lead in postseason scoring with August 07, 2019 1:37 PM his 23 points in 24 games played. The B’s clearly wouldn’t have even been in Game 7 of the Cup Final if it weren’t for Marchand being the most consistently effective member of the Perfection Line during the Today’s piece on Brad Marchand is the third in a 10-part series over the postseason. next two weeks breaking down the core Bruins group of players, and Marchand in his own words: “The more time you have to think about, it where they stand headed into next season after last spring’s Stanley Cup just gets harder. You start to pick apart everything that you’d like to playoff run. change. You starting thinking the ‘What ifs.’ It just makes it tough. [Losing There’s no argument about Brad Marchand being at the height of his Game 7] is going to hurt forever.” playing abilities, and in the very prime of a brilliant career with the Boston The biggest question he faces: The biggest question mark facing Bruins. Marchand is whether he can replicate what he did in 2018-19, or whether Marchand garnered Hart Trophy votes this past season, which might the 100-point season was a career year for the Nose Face Killah. have been unthinkable even a couple of years ago, given his track record Marchand did so many things right for the Bruins at the very pinnacle of for suspensions and brushes with the NHL powers that be in the NHL his NHL career, and the challenge will be to see if he can surpass, or Player Safety Department. even match, the magic of last season. The 31-year-old Marchand played 79 games while hitting the magical 100-point mark for the first time in his career, and he once again teamed Comcast SportsNet.com LOADED: 08.08.2019 with running mate Patrice Bergeron to be one of the most dynamic duos in the league. More importantly, he avoided getting suspended for the first time in his NHL career and really seemed to find the hockey equilibrium between spiritual leader and smart player staying above the fray with careless penalties or games missed due to discipline. Bruins Core Concerns: What's the plan for Bergeron going forward? “He has recognized that he has to walk that line, and it’s a fine line that sometimes you’re going to cross when your wires get crossed upstairs,” said Bruins president Cam Neely in an exclusive interview with NBC Sports Boston. “He did a great job controlling his emotions this year for the most part. That’s tough to do when it’s an emotional game and he’s an emotional player, but there’s a correlation between the season he had and the games that he played.” Unfortunately, though, such a great season ended on a bummer of a down note for Marchand.