Every regular-season accomplishment means nothing. There are no more games for the Bruins. “Right now, it’s hard to process anything.' Team legends might be done. Cap issues are coming. FlutoShinzawa sifts through the rubble:
The goaltending mismanagement was just one reason the Bruins are now a punchline. They mismanaged the puck through Round 1. Montgomery shook up his lineup to the point where unfamiliarity settled in. Pastrnak didn’t elevate his performance until Games 6 and 7. Lindholm struggled the entire series.
The Panthers deserved to win. The Bruins, in retrospect, were paper tigers. They could not meet the gravity of the situation. So they were left to cry, hug, think about what went wrong and wonder about what comes next. They do not have answers. “This is a tough one,” Marchand said. “We obviously expected much different results this year and this series. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. This one is going to hurt for a long time.”Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.is a senior writer for The Athletic covering the Boston Bruins. He has covered the team since 2006, formerly as a staff writer for The Boston Globe.
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