BOSTON BRUINS

BY MICK COLAGEO

PREDICTION | 3RD IN ATLANTIC THE PERENNIAL 50-WIN B’S won an NHL-record 65 games last season thanks to coach Jim Montgomery, goalie Linus Ullmark and several X-factors that became best-case scenarios. However, letting Florida rally from a 3-1 series deficit in the first round of the playoffs will haunt Boston’s 1924 centennial. David Pastrnak’s franchise-record $11.25-million annual salary, plus deferred bonuses for Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci ($4.5 million), forced GM Don Sweeney to move Taylor Hall’s $6-million cap hit. Sweeney’s deadline rentals all went to market. A stripped-down playoff hopeful, Boston brings back a Jennings Trophy goaltending tandem and a defense corps featuring Charlie McAvoy, Hampus Lindholm and Brandon Carlo, but Bergeron retired and the Bruins were still waiting on a decision from Krejci well into the summer. Pavel Zacha was…

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