Playing for the Boston Bruins, Charlie McAvoy is accustomed to being a visitor at Bell Centre as a chief rival of the host Canadiens.
MONTREAL, QC — Playing for the Boston Bruins, Charlie McAvoy is accustomed to being a visitor at Bell Centre as a chief rival of the host Canadiens.
“It’s nothing that won’t be familiar to me,” McAvoy said. “You’re not welcome here.”
Now ratchet that up a bunch as he and the United States play Canada on Saturday night at the 4 Nations Face-Off in the countries’ first showdown in an international tournament with the NHL’s best players in nearly a decade, with the world watching and a jacked-up crowd into it from warmups on.
“Saturday night in Canada, against Canada, I don’t think there’s much better than this for a hockey player of this level,” U.S. winger Jake Guentzel said Friday. “The crowd’s going to be …
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