Bruins fire Jim Montgomery, name Joe Sacco interim head coach

[FoxYou727]

Honestly knowing Sweeney and Neely how much you want to bet Quenville is going to be the next coach

 

[Darren McCord]

He’ll have a new job within a week

Hopefully with the penguins

 

[Captain Mountain]

Are the habs bout to pull a Claude Julien 2.0

Probably not, but the FYI for everyone else is that Montgomery is bilingual.

 

[Enniskillen]

Great coach, hopefully he is in the right place mentally to keep his sobriety thing going. He will find a new job soon enough. As for the broons, their management was so afraid of Florida that they have built a Frankenstein team with big bodies and small rats.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Sacco far from the answer but for the now it could work. Any change at all was needed.

 

[eojsmada]

Wonder if the Wings go for a coach swap, now.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

This is so going to bite them in the ass and I'm totally here for it!

How on earth?

 

[Dellstrom]

Will miss him as a person. Really like his personality and he has an amazing story. Should be picked up by someone really quick.

Not sure why we've struggled so much to start the season but if you were to rank the reasons why we haven't had playoff success, and why we've started so poorly, not sure Monty is high on that list for me.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

Sacco is such an incredible downgrade in coaching it's nuts. Someone is going to swoop in and get a great coach.

Cassidy 2.0

 

[MoeBartoli]

I guess two great regular seasons don’t outweigh a .500 start. Those two prior seasons support he’s a good coach under a boss had a bad offseason.

 

[Vladys Gumption]

Dumping a guy with a .715 points percentage as your coach to replace him with Joe Sacco is a comically poor decision.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

So which team does Montgomery win a cup with next season?

 

[McGarnagle]

Like people have mentioned, great guy and everyone wishes him the best, but the dude absolutely panics and melts down in the postseason. He just about single-handedly cost them the 2023 first round series after the record setting regular season with one of the worst anxiety attacks of a coaching display I've ever seen in the NHL.

With the way this year started where his magic of squeezing the most out of his roster seemingly ran out, and the fact that the veteran core of this team is underperforming and discombobulated, the firing was well deserved.

As for Sacco, either they get the new coach bump and get back in it or they give up and bottom out for a draft pick. Either way is better than what they've been doing.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Dumping a guy with a .715 points percentage as your coach to replace him with Joe Sacco is a comically poor decision.

Well, if he lost the room and the players don’t play hard for him anymore then you have to let him go. His record is irrelevant.

 

[BallardEra]

I remember my buddy ball-washing Joe Sacco back in the day when he was on the Leafs.

 

[super6646]

They were going to fall off eventually. Can't really say its Jim's fault; injuries haven't helped either.

I'm still stunned that Lindholm got the bag that he did after last season. He was absolutely atrocious last season. Calgary was better once he was off the roster (it was the Hanifin and Tanev trades that did us in down the stretch). Sans those two other trades I mentioned, I think Calgary had a chance to make a run for the playoffs w/o his presence on the roster. Ik his playoff run with Van was decent, but he really didn't earn himself a big payday. Never thought I'd be saying all of that after my thoughts about him in his prime, but Boston effed up.

 

[JoeSakic13]

Oh god, good luck with all that.

- Avs Fanbase

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Honestly knowing Sweeney and Neely how much you want to bet Quenville is going to be the next coach

Hope not. Detroit needs to hire Q.

 

[Reality Czech]

He’ll have a new job within a week

If he wants one. Anyone think he might take the rest of the year off to reset and spend some time with family? Seems like things might have been a bit stressful behind the scenes with Boston lately.

 

[tmg]

Clean house! Fire Bob Essensa too!

(Not because he actually should be fired - but because I want one of my teams to hire him and pay him handsomely!)

 

[Zirakzigil]

I admit. He was not on my coach who’s fired first bingo card.

 

[Super Hans]

Last time Sacco was a HC, the Avs got MacKinnon

 

[dirtydanglez]

that was a mistake

 

[Sheppy]

Shouldn’t Sweeney/Neely be gone at this point too?

Yes.

 

[Zwui21]

I'm here for the downfall of the Bruins. Keep Sweeney as long as possible, thanks.