The final horn echoed through the TD Garden on Tuesday night, a somber punctuation mark on a Bruins season that ended not with a playoff berth but with a hard-fought 5-4 overtime loss to the Devils.
The Boston Bruins have missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016 and have been playing some of their younger prospects to get a head start on shaping next season’s roster.
It wasn’t the kind of start that the Bruins prospects were looking for. The Boston Bruins kicked off its 2024 Prospect Challenge with a 6-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, Friday at LECOM Harbor Center in Buffalo.