Post-Game Talk: GAME 20 - Columbus 5, SS Edmund Fitzgerald 1 - The sellout streak ended tonight at 628

[BruinDust]

He’s not wrong, but after TWENTY GAMES of this…what more does it take?

How many periods of the last 45 have the Bruins actually been good?

5? 10 at the most.

So let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say its 10. You mean to tell me the reason they stunk the other 35 period was lack of compete?

Give it a break Brad, I'll say what you can't.

This team simply isn't good enough. It doesn't have the horses. It doesn't have the ponies.

 

[BTO]

Come on guys, give Swayman a break....he's been through a lot...lost his bestie, been yelled at by his bosses, his podcast career is in shambles...my God, the devastation he feels has to be affecting his on ice performance ....I think I saw his set of balls on a milk carton ...please everyone...help poor Jeremy find his balls ...and his blocker...and his glove hand...his five hole is really easy to find though......I genuinely hopes he reads this thread

“His podcast career is in shambles”

 

[Caper Bruins fan]

I don't know. Monty said something similar in response to a question.

"My conversations with the players are solution based. How do we fix it? How do we get a more consistent compete level in all three zones... and better special teams."

Just once I’d like to see him lose it in a press conference and go John Tortorella mode . Show some passion ffs .

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Lucky they never traded him for Landeskog though.

I'll take Nuke even with the drug problems one for one.

 

[the negotiator]

Was at the game tonight

A total crap-show

Change both behind the bench and on the ice HAS to happen ...and quickly - like tomorrow!!

 

[GordonHowe]

Blow it the f*** up. Top to bottom.

Then urinate.

Let's not lose our heads.

With half way decent coaching, the Bruins, *even as presently constituted*, can and will make the post season.

Again, adding scoring on the wing at some point should not be difficult.

They are nowhere near as bad as they appear to be.

IMHO, almost every ill that plagues the team is the result of dysfunctional coaching from top to bottom.

As Mione (sp) posted, the only member of the coaching staff who deserves to be retained is Bob Essensa.

A fish rots from the head.

And to mix metaphors, heads should roll.

If they miss the playoffs, one may include Sweeney and Neely in that company.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Part of me wonders if they're waiting for the Penguins to blink and fire Sullivan.

 

[Caper Bruins fan]

Let's not lose our heads.

With half way decent coaching, the Bruins, *even as presently constituted*, can and will make the post season.

Again, adding scoring on the wing at some point should not be difficult.

They are nowhere near as bad as they appear to be.

IMHO, almost every ill that plagues the team is the result of dysfunctional coaching from top to bottom.

As Mione (sp) posted, the only member of the coaching staff who deserves to be retained is Bob Essensa.

A fish rots from the head.

And to mix metaphors, heads should roll.

If they miss the playoffs, one may include Sweeney and Neely in that company.

I agree with this 100 %.

Part of me wonders if they're waiting for the Penguins to blink and fire Sullivan.

I wouldn’t want Sullivan back . Pittsburgh has hung onto that guy way too long , winning two Cups will do that , I suppose.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Funny in those 3 pics not 1 American hockey player

Don't be a ****ing clown. Tim Thomas was Cup MVP. Bergeron and Marchand win zero Cups without "The American."

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Loved those kids I sat next to.

In high school all had good construction jobs. Garden security losers bullied them and they got tossed for a couple nips. Good crew!

 

[22Brad Park]

Fluto just posted big article in Athletic saying only logical move is firing Montgomery.

 

[TobanWest]

Coyle wants to “talk about the problems”, “communicate better”

WTF is he, a marriage counselor?

Try skating harder, hitting and battling.

What a douche

This guy's is 10 plus mentally soft.

 

[22Brad Park]

Don't be a ****ing clown. Tim Thomas was Cup MVP. Bergeron and Marchand win zero Cups without "The American."

I don't care if a player from Istanbul long as they helping I use to think Rask be one to get Bruins a Cup not Timmy.Never been more wrong about a player in my life.

 

[BTO]

How that man still have a job on Wednesday?

Because if Sweeney fires Monty he’s on his 4th coach and the gun will be pointing directly at Sweeney next.

 

[BigGoalBrad]

I said yesterday was my wedding gotta drop the pic

 

[Caper Bruins fan]

I said yesterday was my wedding gotta drop the pic View attachment 932609

Congrats!

 

[The don godfather]

didn't you "book it"?? crazy, your "book it"'s never miss...

How can anyone believe they would have a dung show like this at home especially knowing they badly needed 2 points. The players have quit on the coach.

 

[Caper Bruins fan]

Because if Sweeney fires Monty he’s on his 4th coach and the gun will be pointing directly at Sweeney next.

So he continues as is and watches this team slide to the bottom and gets fired anyway ? Sweeney deserves some of the blame for this , sure but what would firing Sweeney right now accomplish? It’s too late to dramatically change the roster now . The only logical choice now is to fire the coach .

 

[BruinDust]

Fluto just posted big article in Athletic saying only logical move is firing Montgomery.

The only logical move is to fire Neely, Sweeney, Bradley, Langenbrunner, and Evan Gold. This roster is their creation. All the moves they made in the off-season. Calling up Viel when your team can't f***ing score. Rumors of chasing a "scoring power forward". They clearly don't know what they are doing and have zero clue how to build a successful team in the 2024 version of the NHL. Still attached to this mythical being that supposedly is a Boston Bruin.

Then fire Bonvie and the rest of the pro scouts who I would assume had input on the acquisitions of Kastelic, Elias, Zadorov, Koepke, Tufte, Jones, etc.

 

[TD Charlie]

I don't know. Monty said something similar in response to a question.

"My conversations with the players are solution based. How do we fix it? How do we get a more consistent compete level in all three zones... and better special teams."

Just seems like more of the same. Same message, same process, same results.

And yet it’s the same group with the same guy at the helm

Enough is enough.

 

[Bad Bruin]

Last off season was the time to move on from some of the players that are past their prime or underperforming for their pay.
I knew the end of the Bergy Krejci era would be a wake-up call for this team.
Yeah it sux moving some of the guys that made their careers here or were brought in to get the team over the hump during the competitive years. But it’s past time for an aggressive remake. This isn’t a year for a tweak or two.
I got burned for bringing up that we should have looked at moving on from Marchy, H. Lindholm, Coyle and Carlo. Coyle has probably been one of the better forwards this year but you have to offer up something that’ll return a decent prospect.
Younger pieces and draft picks need to be prioritized but I’m not really confident that the pro and amateur drafting department can find the top end talent this team needs. That’s another discussion entirely.
It’s unlikely that management will blow this team up at this point of the year so they’ll make the easy decision and fire Monty.
We’ll have to live through a shit season regardless, might as well have started the rebuild early.

 

[Blitzkrug]

It just gets worse.

As i said in the GDT, yes, the defense around him sucks, but when you're making 8.2 million like Swayman is, you're expected to go above and beyond once and a while. He has yet to do that thus far. Being in Winnipeg, i get to watch a guy that makes roughly 300k more than Sway does and he routinely steals games when he probably shouldn't

The team's top players just aren't there. McAvoy has been bad, Pastrnak is the most invisible near PPG forward i can ever recall watching. Lindholm has been a bust of a signing so far after a great start. Defensive coverage sucks, everything is terrible.

Jim Montgomery isn't at fault for the hilariously bad roster construction, but after tonight it can be seen from space he lost the room. It was already obvious to quite a few of us when the go to answer for questions asked were "i have no answers."

With practice cancelled tomorrow, i assume they put the poor bastard out of his misery. He will be free from this and just like the guy he replaced, will probably go on to greener pastures with a new team. My take? Watch Montreal fire St. Louis to bring in a coach who is actually good at his job and can speak french.

And then when it becomes obvious the roster is badly flawed when someone else takes over, Sweeney and Neely are next.

Edit: Quick changes to make to see if you can salvage anything;

Fire Monty

Bench Swayman for a few games to send a message his play isn't tolerable. Korpisalo has been good and you can easily run with him for a couple consecutive starts

 

[Bread and Circuses]

Remember how often folks wanted to trade Krejci? The guy was so underrated and under appreciated.

What a luxury having a 1C playing 2nd line was.

I was baffled at anyone that ever even remotely implied Krejci was any part of the problem with the Bruins roster during his tenure, absolutely mind blowing….. the guy spent most of his career making players with far less talent look good.

 

[BruinDust]

So he continues as is and watches this team slide to the bottom and gets fired anyway ? Sweeney deserves some of the blame for this , sure but what would firing Sweeney right now accomplish? It’s too late to dramatically change the roster now . The only logical choice now is to fire the coach .

You want a new group with a new vision for this team making any moves going forward. I don't want Sweeney to get even one more day at the helm trying to find band-aid solutions for this team.

Get a new management team in here, start selling of their UFAs, and start building towards next season because this one is over.

 

[nORRis8]

And he's not going anywhere.

The outlet....he's still an RFA till 2026-7. His NTC does not take affect till then.