The 2024-25 Bruins season has not exactly gone according to plan for Brad Marchand and the rest of his teammates.
Boston entered a new campaign seemingly poised to build off the promise showcased by an overachieving roster in 2023-24 — especially after shelling out over $80 million in free agency to seemingly upgrade the depth chart.
But that optimism has dissipated in short order, with Boston currently clinging onto the final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference — with four other teams within four points of them in the standings.
Add in the firing of Jim Montgomery, several players mired in a severe on-ice regression, and Marchand himself have to snuff out a sports-radio narrative regarding his supposed prickly relationship with David Pastrnak, and it’s evident that this current campaign has shrouded in frustration since the puck first dropped in Florida on Oct.