Boston Bruins @ Belfast CONFIRMED

[heja]

Boston will play in belfast on OCT 2nd @ 7pm against an elite league all stars side.

Tickets sales will be confirmed at a later date

[heja]

on NHL.com home page on the top right hand menu

[pantherinmanc]

Just a hunch but might we see a Panthers away game in Belfast the night previous??

[bill238]

I think belfast will be playing nottingham on the sunday ;D

[pantherinmanc]

Hope so!

[pantherdman]

Good news, now we 're just waiting for the Elite league fixtures (surprise surprise)
I hope we play them on the Friday. Let our boy's be festive Saturday night

[EMB]

Have heard ages ago we are included in that weekend at some point, playing Belfast the night before the exhibition game.

[Heanor Lair]

We ar playing belfast the following day. The number crunchers have budgeted for a 4500 attendance the next day. The NCAA game will take place befor the Giants-Panthers game.

HL

[Dan]

Let's hope for our team that Boston go 3-0 up.

[pantherinmanc]

Jun 21, 2010 21:34:05 GMT Heanor Lair said:

We ar playing belfast the following day. The number crunchers have budgeted for a 4500 attendance the next day. The NCAA game will take place befor the Giants-Panthers game.

HL

We're playing the Friday night at the O.

[radford1]

how do you know that? according to our site we haven't a game on the friday anywhere. leads me to think sunday

[lee]

Jun 22, 2010 7:35:51 GMT radford1 said:

how do you know that? according to our site we haven't a game on the friday anywhere. leads me to think sunday

exactly, i don't think it could have been made any more obvious!

[pantherdman]

They need to get their fingers out and announce the whole weekend so people can book cheap flights and hotels.
Do they want people to turn up or not?

[pantherinmanc]

To be fair GM is supposed to wait for the league to officially release fixtures - he can't really make it any clearer than he has via the OS, Panthers @ Giants Friday night, Bruins @ Giants (EIHL all stars) Saturday.

Book away.

[lee]

what more do you need??

the date of the Bruins game has been announced and then a massive hint as to the fixture of the panthers game...... i think that tells you what flights you need to book with 95% confidence.....

[lee]

Jun 22, 2010 8:10:52 GMT @pantherinmanc said:

Panthers @ Giants Friday night,

Lets just make this clear on here!


GM: "Officially our own schedule isn't released until the start of next month so officially we can't tell our fans the exact date of our game against Belfast on the same weekend. The Giants sometimes play on Friday nights at home, put it this way,

we haven't got a game anywhere on Friday October the 1st."

it will be on SUNDAY!!!

[blueline]

Better be the Sunday as just booked flight and room for Sat - Monday!!!!

[lps]

As reported in the NEP

Panthers will also be playing the same weekend in the Province, more likely to be the Friday night, which is a big coup for the travelling Nottingham fans.

Maybe we have to wait til July 1st

[spik]

Officially announced yesterday afternoon......

On Monday afternoon in Boston, the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) the top ice hockey league in the world, announced that they will be playing a challenge match against the Belfast Giants Selects in October 2010. This is a massive coup for the Giants, the UK Elite League and for the city of Belfast. No NHL team has ever played a match against a team in the UK or Ireland and the Bruins are one of the most famous ice hockey franchises in history. On Monday, I met Cam Neely, the Bruins President and former NHL Superstar to officially announce the game.

[Rumpole]

I think the wording on the Panthers' site is a bit misleading. I think GM is trying to say "We aren't ALREADY playing on the Friday night.
It wouldn't make sense for us to play the day after the main event. Hold our game on the Friday and you have a much better chance of a bigger crowd, and would we really want to commit players to an exhibition game the day before what is likely to be a crucial League fixture?

[pantherinmanc]

Reading it back it is ambiguous (and strangely it didn't appear so to me first time around). I still maintain it will likely be the Friday as that's what I'd heard previously and also appears to be Mick Holland's info (which will be direct from the club).

I hope it is Friday, we don't need to have our key players below par because they took part in an exhibition game less than 24 hours before a huge EIHL clash.

[pantherdman]

Jun 22, 2010 8:11:02 GMT lee said:

what more do you need??

the date of the Bruins game has been announced and then a massive hint as to the fixture of the panthers game...... i think that tells you what flights you need to book with 95% confidence.....

Lee, Don't take anything for granted in British Hockey until it is officially announced, then view it with doubt.

We're probably talking about £100 difference if you add an extra night in a hotel and a day in Belfast, thats why I need to know what day we are playing mate.

Cam Neeley, what a Legend. My second favorite player ever, just behind Bobby Orr.

[pantherdman]

Jun 22, 2010 8:50:53 GMT @pantherinmanc said:

Reading it back it is ambiguous (and strangely it didn't appear so to me first time around). I still maintain it will likely be the Friday as that's what I'd heard previously and also appears to be Mick Holland's info (which will be direct from the club).

I hope it is Friday, we don't need to have our key players below par because they took part in an exhibition game less than 24 hours before a huge EIHL clash.

+1 The sensible night would be Friday, so it will probably be Sunday.

[lee]

Jun 22, 2010 8:54:42 GMT pantherdman said:

Lee, Don't take anything for granted in British Hockey until it is officially announced, then view it with doubt.

This i completely agree with,

I'd rather the league game be before the Bruin one, 2 points is more important than seeing a bunch of Elite league players being given the run around by an NHL team.

[Deleted]

99% sure it will be on the Friday, im sure panthers would take 300-400 fans across