from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,

We finally learned on Thursday, five days after the season ended, what Bruins management thinks went wrong in 2015-16. In somber, sometimes funereal tones, general manager Don Sweeney explained how a bad start, a worse finish, and spotty roster talent produced a second consecutive postseason DNQ. When I left the Garden after the news conference, I felt like I needed to sign a book of condolence, shake a grieving spouse’s hand.

Instead, I paid my $28 for 3-4 hours of parking and drove home, somewhat bewildered by it all, much like I felt many nights during the season.

How will Sweeney fix it? He’s not sure. He was key in creating the mess at hand, a rookie GM handed the keys just a year ago, and it stands to reason he doesn’t yet have all the answers. But he needs to find them, and quickly, or this time next year he’ll have to explain the club’s first three straight DNQs in the post-Bobby Orr era, and probably do so while handing the keys to a new GM....

Sweeney’s charge now is to add to the team’s talent. If amid that search he overlooks heart, what this year’s team lacked most, he’ll be right back where he was Thursday, ignoring the obvious, or unwilling to say it.

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