def _retrieve_html_page(self, uri):
url = BOXSCORE_URL % uri<EOL>try:<EOL><INDENT>url_data = pq(url)<EOL><DEDENT>except HTTPError:<EOL><INDENT>return None<EOL><DEDENT>return pq(utils._remove_html_comment_tags(url_data))<EOL>
Download the requested HTML page.

Given a relative link, download the requested page and strip it of all
comment tags before returning a pyquery object which will be used to
parse the data.

Parameters
----------
uri : string
    The relative link to the boxscore HTML page, such as
    '2017-11-10-21-kansas'.

Returns
-------
PyQuery object
    The requested page is returned as a queriable PyQuery object with
    the comment tags removed.