Just got tickets for Panthers game on 03/28. Can't wait!
Last time I went to Boston and saw the B's was 2011. I'm not saying it's an omen or anything, but... hey, it just might be an omen.
This is slightly off topic, but I'm scheduled to land at Logan at 5 PM on the 26th. Bruins play Ottawa that night. Is there even a chance in hell that I could get to a hotel in Kenmore Square and back to TD Garden in time to make that game, too?
--BCN
If you want to make puck drop, I'm gonna say you're on the razor's edge, depending on how good you are at orienting yourself, how quicklly you move through the city, and how lucky you are in terms of timing. The cab ride from Logan to Fenway/Kenmore Square is probably about 30 minutes once you get an Uber. It's about 20-25 minutes from the Kenmore Square T station to North Station (aka TD Garden). Add in miscellaneous walking and waiting - 30 minutes around the airport if you're not waiting for bags and you're able to zip off the plane and the gate is relatively near, 15 minutes to check in the hotel and throw your bags on the bed, 5 minutes to walk to the T station and buy a pass, and 2-3 minutes to get to the actual gate of the Garden...that's about 120 minutes total. That's assuming everything goes exactly right - no delayed planes, you're able to get an Uber quickly, traffic isn't awful, no huge lines at the hotel check in, there's a T waiting for you at Kenmore, etc.
If you're traveling really light, like just one or two carryons, and you're okay with checking in to your hotel at 10:30 PM, you could go directly from the airport to the Garden - from Logan, the Garden is on the way to Kenmore, not vice versa. But before you go to the Garden, stop at Sullivan's Tap - they check bags for Garden events for like $10 each, I think. I could be wrong on the price, and I know they closed and reopened since I last had a friend check a bag there...but if you go directly from Logan to the Garden, then you should be able to hit a 7 PM game with no problem, assuming your plane lands on time.
You might even consider waiting until the day before the Ottawa game to see how lucky you feel. On the one hand, it's a March game, so college kids and folks who hate traveling in the cold might go. On the other hand, it's a good chance that the game will be meaningless to both teams - Ottawa could be all but locked out of the playoffs by then, and we could have first in the Atlantic locked up. Tickets will get realyl cheap if that's the case.