It's easy to exceed expectations when no one has any for you entering a season. The Boston Bruins appear to be a team that could experience a second consecutive rough season, having made minimal offseason improvements. As a result, the media is writing them off in a challenging Atlantic Division. Obviously, the players can't worry about that as they take on the 82-game season, and Nikita Zadorov was the first to face the challenge head-on.
Nikita Zadorov on setting expectations for this season:
"Being underdogs this year, being a team that nobody is putting anywhere even close to where we should be — it's kind of putting an extra chip on our shoulders.