TheBeerNerd
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I remember last time we played the Caps, Spaulding seemed confused as to why we didn’t get him in that draft in spite of him being available and a Devils fan.
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Blues fire Bannister and hire Montgomery
That was fast. I expected it was going to be the Predators who did this, but the Blues moved faster.
Montgomery got a five year deal, but of course most coaches don’t make it that long.
Montgomery was with the Blues before being hired in Boston. He has a relationship with Armstrong and the Blues front office. My guess if the Blues were willing to turf their first year coach for him, those other teams didn’t have a chance to move in quicker.
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I had a feeling Montgomery would be hired really quickly. I kept comparing it to that time the Capitals fired Boudreau and the Ducks fired Carlyle and hired him two days later.
I just had the wrong team. Figured it would be Detroit, even though I didn’t know if he had any previous ties to anyone there or not.
I never did think the Blues, only because they have a coach that’s been there only a year and I’m amazed at how many strings they try to pull to still compete. I think it’s time to give it up over there. You’re maybe competing for a playoff berth at best.
I just had the wrong team. Figured it would be Detroit, even though I didn’t know if he had any previous ties to anyone there or not.
I never did think the Blues, only because they have a coach that’s been there only a year and I’m amazed at how many strings they try to pull to still compete. I think it’s time to give it up over there. You’re maybe competing for a playoff berth at best.
I remember being happy enough, but extremely sour at the time with Tedenby, he just wasn't what we needed. I did think we got a good winger.
At the time we had Elias, Parise, Gionta at wing. We were giving first pairing minutes to Mike Mottau.
Carlson was and always will be who they should have drafted. It was obvious to anyone with half a brain.
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Blues make a coaching change, which means we probably help give them a new coach bump this week
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We should still be able to take them quite easily. They aren't a good team and Binnington is back to being a painfully mediocre goaltender after a bounceback season last year.
I'm tired of seeing them go into MSG and get destroyed and mostly even on Long Island too, but then they come in here on the same trip and look like they're actually still a relevant team. We lost to them both times in 22-23 and they were shit that year.
I think we beat them at home last year when Green was interim head coach.
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Should’ve had it against Boston.
I wonder if Lou wasn’t here and current ownership gm and theme is in place then do they draft him for the jersey angle?
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I think he may not have liked that if that happened. I don't think he's on such great terms with the organization.
It's been so long that there's hardly anybody still working there who was there when he last played there almost 20 years ago, but I think that probably would have been in bad taste if you asked him.
Sometimes they do that against the other team the player played for. I think they retired Selanne's number in Anaheim when Winnipeg was in town, even though it wasn't the same organization as the Winnipeg Jets that he played for. I think they also retired Ryan Miller's number in Buffalo a few years back when Anaheim was in town, the team he last played with in the NHL.
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LOL....
Also didn't realize Kreider was making a run at the Cy Young this season. 9 goals and 0 assists through 19 games. Impressive.
Also didn't realize Kreider was making a run at the Cy Young this season. 9 goals and 0 assists through 19 games. Impressive.
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Apparently he was ultimately just a placeholder. They wanted to hire Montgomery in the summer if Boston let him go, but after they kept him they took the interim tag off of Bannister. Then Montgomery became available and they made the change.
TheBeerNerd
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Armstrong said his firing was pretty much entirely due to Montgomery being available.
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I think once they saw he was available they jumped on that before someone else did. And he was an assistant there before he took the job in Boston.
This reminds me of when the Flames fired Geoff Ward, who was only head coach for about a calendar year. They were 11-11-2 after 24 games.
But they brought back Darryl Sutter who was already retired, but I guess he agreed to come back because he lived close and had coached/been the GM there before. They probably weren’t gonna fire Ward then if Sutter didn’t want the job.
Good luck to them with that. They might get something for Kreider, but I suspect Trouba is just as unmovable as he was over the summer.
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don't both guys have 15-team NMC? Feels like this is just trying to scare the team into performing better.
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