Bruins Notes: Boston Embraces Growth Following Disappointing Season

BOSTON — The Bruins lost their season finale Tuesday night, 5-4, in overtime to New Jersey Devils at TD Garden.

With the book closed on the 2024-25 season, Jeremy Swayman offered an honest take on how the Bruins will reflect on the disappointing campaign.

“It’s a lot. You can’t really comprehend it totally right now,” Swayman said. “You’ve just got so many emotions, but the biggest thing that we know, the message in this room is it’s not going to be the same next year.

“That’s what we have to focus on; putting ourselves in a good position to come back next year a lot stronger and use this adversity and all this learning to make us better hockey players and a better team.”

Swayman’s season did not go as well as he had hoped. He finished with a 3.11 goals-against average and a .892 save percentage with an overall record of 22-29-7 in 58 games. Swayman played in 13 more games than he had the previous season.

“I think just taking it day-by-day really helped me a lot,” he said. “You don’t really understand how many games you’ve accumulated when you really have that mindset. And that was really good. I was really proud of my body. I was really proud of my mindset. I never gave a day up. And that’s something that I’ve worked my whole life for.

“I know that I didn’t get the results, but at the same time, a ton of positives that I really felt I could grow on and move forward with. That’s something that I will have the ability to reflect on and again, this summer, I know exactly what I’m going to do. Put a plan together and come back strong as hell.”

The Bruins may not have ended the season on a high note, but Swayman added that the “major takeaway” is simply finding a way to win.

“No matter how we do it, we have to have compete every single day,” he said. “We have to have in the moment mindset. We can’t let things dwell, we can’t let the past affect our present and I know that we had that issue a little bit and it’s something that we again can recognize and grow from and how can we manage that next year is something that we really can focus on this summer and nip it in the butt right away.

“We’re a proud program. We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to our fans to be a lot better. I’m excited for the comeback.”

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Here are more notes from Tuesday’s Bruins-Devils game:

— David Pastrnak recorded a goal and an assist to finish the season with 43 goals, 63 assists and 106 points. He had multiple points in six straight games, which is the longest streak by a Bruin since Ray Bourque had a seven-game streak in March 1993.

— Morgan Geekie opened the scoring for Boston with his 33rd tally of the season. He finished the season with six goals in his last six games and 19 points (nine goals and 10 assists across a 10-game point streak.

“Obviously, O’m proud of the way I finished the year out,” Geekie said. “But, to me, being over now, having the season over now is just something that, it’s tough to process.”

— John Farinacci made his debut against the Devils and lit the lamp for his first career NHL goal in the second period.

“That was awesome,” Farinacci said of scoring his first goal. “That was a pinch-me moment for sure. So happy I got a goal.”

The 24-year-old New Jersey native tallied nine goals and 28 assists for 37 points in 57 games for Providence this season.