OF Jake DeBrusk announcement that he is leaving Boston Bruins Now another significant issue for team…..see more

There were some question marks surrounding the Bruins heading into the season after they lost both Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci.

However, they nearly won the Atlantic Division once again to bring their playoff streak to eight straight years.

Boston got past Toronto in the opening round before falling to Florida in the second round.

Armed with cap and roster flexibility for the first time in a while, GM Don Sweeney has a chance to reshape the roster or to keep the bulk of the core together.

Here’s what should be on their to-do list in the coming weeks.

After losing their top two middlemen from the year before, the Bruins didn’t do a whole lot to replace them.

Morgan Geekie came over after being non-tendered by Seattle while John Beecher and Matthew Poitras came up from the minors and the OHL respectively to largely fill the other vacancy.

In the meantime, Charlie Coyle and Pavel Zacha covered the tough minutes.

All things considered, they cobbled together a solution relatively well given their cap constraints.

Now they don’t have those constraints; they have over $21MM in cap room, per CapFriendly.

They now have an opportunity – and a need – to try to address that.

While their internal options fared well, they’re not a group of middlemen that a contender typically has.

There aren’t any true number one options on the open market this summer but there are some proven second options that can at least give them some more impactful depth.

They were speculatively linked to Elias Lindholm last summer and it stands to reason they’ll have interest in someone who can cover the hard two-way minutes like Bergeron used to.