from Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe,

The Bruins have Tuukka Rask, which is a good thing. An ace goalie is precious currency in the NHL, where scoring goals is harder than AP Physics.

They have Patrice Bergeron, the league’s best two-way center. If Zdeno Chara can stay healthy in 2015-16, the 38-year-old should be an elite shutdown defenseman.

They were not enough, in new general manager Don Sweeney’s estimation, to have made the Bruins a realistic Eastern Conference representative instead of the Lightning or Rangers. The Bruins simply couldn’t score enough to make Rask’s margin of error any thicker than a dime.

The Bruins had the NHL’s No. 22 offense (2.55 goals per game). They had a plus-2 goal differential, the ninth-highest in the East, which accurately reflected their ninth-place finish. They scored 56 third-period goals, more than only Buffalo and Arizona.

This comes down to two things: personnel and philosophy. Sweeney is now responsible for improving both.

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