Burning Questions Ahead of the 2014-15 Boston Bruins Season

October 6th, 2014 by Al Daniel Leave a reply »
The Boston Bruins will end an exact 21-week fast from meaningful hockey action at the TD Garden with Wednesday night’s 2014-15 season opener.

Characteristically, there was not much of a quantitative personnel overhaul in the intervening offseason. As many as 15 skaters who took part in Boston’s Game 7 downfall against the Montreal Canadiens in May will join defending Vezina Trophy recipient Tuukka Rask on the clean sheet. That is not even accounting for those who were healthy or injured scratches for that contest.

But the Bruins bear a deceptively lightly ruffled roster going into Wednesday’s tilt with the Philadelphia Flyers. A top-tier winger and top-four defenseman from the previous run have new NHL employers, and the minute-munching all-around anchor has long-term stamina issues.

Those developments and residual circumstances leave the Bruins with a multilayered question of quality to take into the 2014-15 campaign. In addition, there are mainstays personifying the club’s collective craving for redemption after letting a superficially superior regular season wilt in the form of a half-empty postseaso ...

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