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How to watch tonight’s Bruins-Sabres game

Brad Marchand celebrates a goal. Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images

Reminder, Bruins fans. Friday night’s game with the Sabres will air exclusively on streaming services ESPN+ and Hulu.

The game will not air on ESPN’s main network or on NESN, or anywhere on cable television.

As part of ESPN’s new broadcast rights deal that brought the NHL back to the network for the first time since 2004, 75 regular-season games will air on ESPN+, the network’s subscription-based streaming service

This is the first of four times that a Bruins game will air on ESPN+ and Hulu. The others are:

Capitals at Bruins, Jan. 20.

Bruins at Blues, April 19.

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Rangers at Bruins, April 23.

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Chad Finn is a sports columnist for Boston.com. He has been voted Favorite Sports Writer in Boston in the annual Channel Media Market and Research Poll for the past four years. He also writes a weekly sports media column for the Globe and contributes to Globe Magazine.

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