PWH Morning Skate: Credit Where It's Due With Boston Bruins Accountability

Contrasting the Boston Bruins with the Boston Celtics, B's management came out looking accountable and realistic after their playoff disappointment

Sometimes you need to give credit where it’s properly due.

The Boston Bruins failed in their “all in” quest to win a Stanley Cup this season in gut-punching fashion in a first round playoff loss to the Florida Panthers. They loaded up with a “wagon” of a hockey team after adding Dmitry Orlov, Garnet Hathaway and Tyler Bertuzzi at the NHL trade deadline to a Bruins group that was already the best in the league, and then stumbled spectacularly when it mattered most.

It all left an empty feeling for so many involved after the Bruins set NHL records with 65 wins and 135 points during a regular season where everything went right. And they owned up to all of it in the days and weeks that followed with as clear a message of accountability and accepting of blame afterward.