"I still feel like I'm getting used to it with some of the peripherals, like when look down and you've got the holes there, sometimes you get a little lost when you're looking down like that. But I'm trying to just get comfortable with that. But it's it hasn't hindered me much,"
""It's something that you just have to deal with with the bubble," McAvoy said of the fog and heat that comes with the apparatus. "When I was coming back, it was hard doing the conditioning. That was brutal. You're getting bag skated and you're trying to get that back and you don't really have that much. Everything just gets trapped in there, you're hunched over and you can't breathe and it's fogging up. Those weren't the most fun skates.""
""Softer stuff, mushy stuff," said McAvoy. "It still hurts if I try to chew anything that's kind of rough. It's not fun. But every day we're getting closer to having this thing be 100 percent.""
Charlie McAvoy is set to play his third game back and his first at the Garden while recovering from a surgically repaired broken jaw. He wears a protective bubble consisting of a full shield and a football-like jaw protector and is adjusting to restricted peripheral vision and limited downward sight. The bubble traps heat and fog, which made conditioning and bag skates especially difficult upon his return. McAvoy lost about 20 pounds on a liquid diet and is roughly halfway back to his pre-injury weight of about 215 pounds. He remains on soft, mushy foods and expects daily progress toward full recovery. The Bruins sit just inside the playoff bracket and report a better team vibe.
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