Perspective is hard this soon after, but despite their young age, there are some issues here.
I think there are some concerns about Matthews. He was largely ineffective and for a player of his talent and size it is of concern.
There have to be questions about Andersen. While some games he was great, in three of the games he was not. Is he consistent enough to be the guy? That isn’t clear to me.
The defence is bad. Really bad and if it isn’t fixed there won’t be much chance of being a Cup competitor at all. Not sure what they do about that. No more high picks to find a stud D-man.
There were of course some positives, but difficult to see those in the context of a Game 7 loss. It is so disappointing because the Bruins were there to be taken tonight.