After setting all kinds of records during the 2022-23 season, and having one of the best goaltending duos to boot, the Boston Bruins entered the playoffs with plenty of hopes and dreams. Those dreams, unfortunately, would stay that way as they fell in short of a Stanley Cup Finals appearance – falling to the Florida Panthers in seven games in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals.
In the offseason, the Bruins lost a few players to free agency and trades, and they even lost two longtime players to retirement: Patrice Bergeron, and David Krejci. First, it was Bergeron, and then it trickled out that Krejci would be as well.