The Bruins have to be happy with much of what they were able to accomplish this past season, returning to the playoffs after a two-year absence and coming back from a 3-1 game deficit to force a Game 7 with Montreal. But that can't hide the fact there's work to be done.

And, every time people talk about next season—about building on whatever gains were made in the crowded and wildly successful Boston sports scene—the same name seems to surface.

Marian Hossa.

The unrestricted free agent-to-be, never known as being a goal scorer in big games, scored two in a Game 5 elimination of the Rangers, giving him five (and 10 points) in nine playoff games as the Penguins headed into the Eastern Conference finals against Philadelphia.

The Penguins, who ...More