In his media briefing Saturday, Bruins center Marc Savard admitted that he may have rushed back from the concussion he suffered March 7 to play in his team’s seven-game loss to the Flyers in the Eastern Conference semifinals in May.

"I think on my own fault I might have come back a little too early last year," he told the media. "That's my own fault. I guess it's just the hockey player in me that I wanted to play hockey in the playoffs. I had huge fatigue problems during that series, and I think when [David] Krejci got hurt [in Game 3], that really hurt me."

Following those comments and after the team’s skate in preparation for Saturday night’s exhibition game against the Florida Panthers, Bruins coach Claude Julien said he was unaware of Savard having any post-concussion syndromes during the Flyers series, namely the fatigue Savard mentioned Saturday. Savard passed a neurological test in order to receive the green light to play in the series, and on Saturday, Julien didn’t recall the crafty center showing any symptoms that indicated he wasn’t ready.

“As a coaching staff, we never, never force people to play until they’re medically cleared,” Julien pointed out. “He passed the tests and he did everything the proper way. Now, once you pass those tests, the only person that can determine that is the player himself. And he was adamant about, ‘Hey, I’m great, I’m ready to go.’ We started him off slowly and obviously he played a little bit more when [Krejci] got hurt. But I never got feedback from any of that. It’s one of those things that he may relate it to that; maybe it has nothing to do with that. There’s no proof anywhere.”

But as Julien also pointed out, there’s not much sense in trying to rehash what could’ve or should’ve been done last spring. The focus now needs to be on the task at hand, and that’s getting Savard -- who failed his most recent neurological test Sept. 17 -- healthy and eventually back in the Bruins lineup. Right now there is no timetable on when that return may occur.

“The bottom line is, I’m not going to overanalyze this whole thing,” Julien said. “We have a guy here that we need to give him a chance to get better because, first of all, health is the most important thing, not the game at this moment. Once his health is better and he’s ready to come back, then we’ve got to make sure we ease him back in. And more than anything else, we’ll be glad to have him back because he’s one of those elite players.”