Bruins at TD Garden: What time do doors open?
Doors open about 90 minutes before puck drop here.
Doors open about 90 minutes before puck drop here.
Your leave-by time is the first travel row. Ready Time can alert you when it comes up. Put in your puck drop time, tap any duration, and the plan recomputes backward.
NHL game night at TD Garden, home of the Boston Bruins. For a concert here, start from the concert night plan instead: a support act sets the deadline rather than the anthem.
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Start times here are the team's own. The NHL sells no national window, so a game goes on when the building and the market suit and there is nothing to convert from Eastern. These are the slots this team plays most often.
These are TD Garden’s own times. The team publishes start times with the schedule in the summer and the same opponent can be a one o’clock one week and a seven o’clock the next, so take the time on your ticket over the one you remember.
Holiday games, a nationally televised night and the playoffs run their own times, and a handful each season start half an hour or an hour either side of the usual slot. Type those in on the puck drop row.
The arena is built on top of North Station, which is what makes the train the easy answer on a weeknight. The Green and Orange Lines both stop underneath and the commuter rail lines from the north end there.
From the Red Line, and so from South Station, it is Park Street and three stops east on the Green; from the Blue Line it is Government Center and two stops, which is also the change you make coming in from Logan. From Back Bay the Orange Line runs here direct. The MBTA passageway under Causeway Street joins the commuter rail side to the subway side without going outdoors, which matters in February.
There is one venue garage and it is underneath the building: the North Station Garage, entered at 121 Nashua Street or 140 Causeway Street, with a six-foot-eight height limit that rules out a roof box. Booking ahead is cheaper than turning up, and the day-of flat rate only applies close to the start time.
EV chargers are on levels 1 and 3 and want the Causeway Street ramp. Rideshare is not at the doors: pick-up and drop-off are on Merrimac Street in the evening, which covers the way out of a night game. Your entry gate is assigned by where you are sitting, so open the ticket at home rather than on Causeway Street.
Bag rules are the arena's own here and they run from a wallet-sized clutch to a bag that fits under your seat. Getting it wrong usually means walking back to the car and re-entering the line.
Check current sizes and door times on TD Garden’s know before you go page before you go.
General doors open 90 minutes before the puck drops and members get in two hours out, so the queue you meet depends on which ticket you hold. Every door has a walk-through metal detector. Bags are the thing to settle at home: nothing over 6 by 4 by 1.5 inches goes in, clear bags included, which rules out most of what people call a small bag, and the diaper and medical bags allowed as exceptions are still searched and x-rayed.
A bag that fails has somewhere to go, which is unusual: the Event Bag Check on level 1 opens two hours before and closes an hour after. There is no re-entry, with emergencies handled case by case.
TD Garden was previously called FleetCenter and later TD Banknorth Garden, so older directions and tickets may still use those names.
Doors, lots and bag rules change; the official site is the live source.
Doors open about 90 minutes before puck drop here; that is when the crowd starts arriving, not when you have to. Being through the doors about half an hour before puck drop covers screening, the walk to your section, and a stop on the concourse.
Work backward from puck drop: minutes in your seat beforehand, walk to your section, security screening, walk from the lot, parking, then the drive (35 minutes in the default plan). That puts leave-by at 5:37 PM for a 7:00 PM puck drop. Change the puck drop time and every row moves.
It is whatever the team has scheduled, and these are local times rather than a converted national window. On this arena's clock: a weekend matinee drops the puck at 1:00 PM, a night game at 7:00 PM, a later start at 8:00 PM. This example uses the night game window. Holiday games, nationally televised nights and playoff rounds run their own times; the puck drop row is editable for those.
The plan allows 10 minutes for a normal walk-through queue. It runs longer in the twenty minutes before puck drop. Arriving fifteen minutes off that peak is usually enough.
About 90 minutes before puck drop here. Check TD Garden’s know before you go page for your game.
Not in the lots here. If you are meeting people somewhere else, add that as a step and everything before it moves earlier.
Assume the limit is small. Check the arena's own page for current sizes. The timing risk is being turned around at the door and walking back to the car: the walk twice and a second trip through the queue.
Flying in? The airport pages. Taking Amtrak? The station pages. No stadium listed? The tailgate timeline is the same plan without a particular lot.
Start the plan in the app, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left, with a bar that fills as each step passes.
Glance at it on the walk in without opening the app.
Every step also gets its own alert, and sharing the plan gives whoever is driving the same leave time, with alerts on their phone.
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