Bruins Ready to Start Season After Cup Loss

“Right after, you just want to forget about it and not think about it,” he said. “Then in the first few weeks you’re trying not to think about hockey at all, but I still find myself thinking about it and how much it sucks. Everybody knows what the situation was with our guys being hurt and stuff. We definitely left everything out there, so there are no regrets or no feelings that we should have done something differently and I think that helps the healing process.

“You can always be better, right?” added Rask. “And looking at last year, I don’t think we played our best hockey but we still somehow made it to the finals. A lot of things have to click. You have to play as a team and all kinds of stuff has to happen, but if you look at the roster I can’t see a reason why we couldn’t be better.”