The 2024-25 season might have been a miserable one for the Boston Bruins, but it has made a lot a dreams come true for some young players.

Defenseman Frederic Brunet and forward John Farinacci will be the latest prospects who will make their NHL debut when the B’s play their season finale on Tuesday against the New Jersey Devils at the Garden. Michael Callahan and Riley Duran, two players who have also made their big league debuts this year, were sent back to Providence.

Both Farinacci and Brunet have shown improvement this season with Providence, which has a good shot for a long run in the Calder Cup playoffs. The 24-year-old Farinacci signed as a free agent with the B’s after not coming to terms with his draft team, the former Arizona Coyotes, which took him in the third round of the 2019 draft. The offensive-minded defenseman Brunet, 21, was a 2022 fifth round pick of the B’s.

“Farinacci comes as advertised, a two-way player who leans more on the defensive side, a bottom-six (forward), kills some penalties,” said interim coach Joe Sacco. “I think it’s the opposite with Brunet, a little bit more of an offensive-minded defenseman, likes to skate, likes to make plays and join the rush at the appropriate time. From all reports, his defending has gotten a lot better as well. His attention to details away from the puck have improved a lot as well. Both guys have an opportunity and they deserve it.”

In Monday’s final practice of the season in Brighton, Farinacci skated on a line with Fraser Minten and Marat Khusnutdinov while Brunet skated on a third pair with Parker Wotherspoon.

Brunet has 5-19-24 totals and is plus-14 in 68 games with Providence while the Harvard product Farinacci has 9-28-37 and is plus-9 in 57 AHL games.

Brunet said his family will be driving down from Quebec City for his debut.

“It’s just a great feeling to get that call,” said Brunet. “I worked hard for it and ll the credit goes to my parents, all my family to help me get there. The first call’s always special and it really was.”

Brunet, who was considered a bit of a project on the defensive side of the puck when he was drafted, feels like he’s made strides.

“Obviously the defensive part of my game is really what I’ve been talking about since I came here. That’s what they’ve talked to me about. I’ve been working a lot on my defensive side and I think it’s gotten better over the past couple of months,” said Brunet. “Obviously I’ve had more responsibility with injuries, waivers and everything, so I think (it’s about) getting more icetime, getting to play against the better players on the other side, just working on all the little stuff with (the coaching staff) in Providence, getting me to be a better 200-foot player. As a D-man, I have to get better at defending and I think that was a big flaw of mine. I think I’ve worked a lot on it and I think I’m ready to go.”

One of Brunet’s inspirations is fellow Quebec City native and former Bruin captain Patrice Bergeron.

“He’s obviously a huge part of Quebec City hockey history,” said Brunet. “He’s the one you think about as soon as you say Quebec and hockey. I think just having him as a role model, just watching him play watching him as the person outside the rink and also on the ice is such a big influence. I had a chance to work out with him a couple of times, just seeing what he does, being a sponge around him, just try to get as much as I can around him. The time I spent around him I think changed me a lot, just seeing how to do stuff.”….

With a season like the Bruins have had, you can expect there to be some casualties. But a source told the Herald that neither GM Don Sweeney or team president Cam Neely are going anywhere, refuting a report from Greg Hill of WEEI that a “resignation” in the front office was coming Wednesday, suggesting it could be either Neely or Sweeney.

If either of those two executives decided to move on, that would be a major course change for the organization and a very surprising one at that. After the house-cleaning trade deadline, B’s CEO Charlie Jacobs made a point of backing both Neely and Sweeney.

“Cam, Don and the hockey operations team have my full support as they make these very difficult decisions, which we collectively believe will set our franchise up for a new era of success in the future,” Jacobs said in a social media team release.

Sweeney, meanwhile, has been seen at various junior rinks scouting high-end prospects as the team prepares to make its highest draft pick since they took Tyler Seguin with the second overall pick in 2010. Neely recently gave an interview with the Globe in which he stated “everything is on the table” as far as the retooling goes, but it didn’t sound like he was going anywhere. And that appears to be the case….

Matt Poitras was named AHL Player of the Week after posting a pair of goals and five assists in two games…

Former Bruin Marc McLaughlin, traded to New Jersey at the deadline, has been called up for Tuesday’s game.

Paul Cotter, however, will not be in the Devils’ lineup. He was suspended two games for his head shot on the Islanders’ Adam Pelech.