The Boston Bruins’ 2024-25 season will officially come to a close on April 15.
It will mark the third time in David Pastrnak’s career that the gifted winger will be on the outside looking in at the Stanley Cup Playoffs — and the first time in nine years that Boston won’t hold a postseason game on Causeway Street.
Given how miserable this current campaign has been for Boston, it comes as a cruel twist of fate that a lost season has also come at the same time that Pastrnak is playing arguably the best hockey of his career.