This is a summer filled with questions for the Boston Bruins.

After another ouster at the hands of the Florida Panthers, in which they just didn't show as much life as they would have liked, they now find themselves at an organizational crossroads.

Basically, general manager Don Sweeney (and presumably team president Cam Neely) will have to determine whether this team is actually good enough to be competitive in a serious way. The flaws in the team they built were obvious last summer — not a ton of forward depth, perhaps over-reliant on older players whose performance could wax and wane, certainly not enough young players on the roster — and were in large part the Bruins' cause of death.

And with almost $21 million to spend on just a handful of players this summer, there is opportunity to put