Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs, making his first expansive comments since the end of the NHL lockout last weekend, sounded optimistic Saturday that the new labor agreement can build fiscal stability among the league’s 30 owners and that it eventually can lead to another agreement in a process he termed “evolutionary rather than revolutionary.’’

Jacobs, who turns 73 this month, also talked as if he is preparing for the day he will step down as chairman of the league’s Board of Governors.