from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,

The Bruins on Wednesday held their second end-of-season press conference in less than a week, with ownership more firmly standing behind Cam Neely as president and Don Sweeney as general manager. It’s their team to fix and make ready for 2016-17.

Otherwise, the briefing amounted to status quo for a club that missed the playoffs for a second straight season. Claude Julien, as announced last week, will return as coach, and the Neely-Sweeney partnership will look for ways to upgrade a roster that again melted into the ice surface at the tail end of the season.

According to Neely, the three areas of greatest need for the roster are: 1. defense; 2. right wing; 3. backup goalie. None of which is a surprise, particularly on the back end, where the Bruins traded free agent Dougie Hamilton last summer without sufficiently stocking the blue line corps with NHL-ready talent....

Ownership, represented by Jeremy Jacobs and son Charlie Jacobs, made clear its feeling that the club continues to suffer for the financial dealings of former general manager Peter Chiarelli. Without naming Chiarelli specifically, the Jacobses noted that some of the player contracts Chiarelli negotiated hamstrung the organization and played a part in the club’s failures the last two seasons.

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