I believe he will. I can already see it. I'm delighted by the recent turn of events on several fronts,One thing was for sure monty had to be
removed it was a train wreck here. Hopefully sacco stabilizes team so far so good.
Something wasn’t right and you could be right. Who knows. People talking of the smear campaign annoys me. They guy had to go. This team was disorganized. There was know type of system that I could detect. His constant line changing would result in TMM penalties. That’s a sign of things. Didn’t they get the record last playoffs? I won’t mention the first year collapse . Sweeney had to do something. Everyone saying he can’t fire another coach. The Blues GM has no problems going through caching candidates.
Honestly I think all three parties here were ready and preparing for this as far back as this summer.
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While true, I think that's pretty dumb for Armstrong to say out loud. Gives Neely ammunition if he was thinking of pressing tampering charges.Only Matter of Time Before Blues Hired Jim Montgomery
The St. Louis Blues wasted no time in hoping on free agent coach Jim Montgomery after he was fired by the Boston Bruins. Not only did the Blues hire Mongtomery
Blues general manager Armstrong pretty much said the main reason he fired Bannister was to hire Montgomery, but Friedman says the Bruins coach was on the Blues’ radar for much longer than his few days after firing.
“I think everybody knew the Blues had one eye on Montgomery, and Montgomery had one eye on the Blues.”
No wonder his coaching was awful this year, one eye on the Blues job. Just like the GM has one eye on the Four Nations. We need some full time bosses here
Missed your reply here but all I will say to that is we’ll never know. You can’t look solely at a guy’s stat line in another org , especially young guys, and say unequivocally they wouldn’t have been an impact player here. And that is what is missing from the young player cupboard, especially forwards, who have they drafted - I’ll give you Swayman- other than Mac who has been that? Especially forwards, which is what started the conversation.
I agree with your approach to dealing the 1st. I'd deal it for a young NHL'er, I would not deal it for a player over 30. You want to help Pasta win? You need young legs for that. A team of 30 somethings isn't going to win the Cup. A few guys here and there? Sure, but we've got.
I'm not saying he did or didn't, but I can see why someone would question the timing based on listening to his response. He switched gears quickly, like a person does when they get excited and forget they shouldn't be saying something. No one's stopping you from disagreeing.
I listened to it and don't think Ty's take is BS. Monty specifically didn't answer the question and got a little animated in with his response.
I don't know how he could MAKE the team perform poorly, but he sure wasn't trying to make the team play better
"Army called me and I thought it was going to be a 'hey keep your head up, enjoy the family we've all been through it' support type call but then it turned business and my blood started pumping"
Yeah I don't know how much it played a roll but this situation does kind of smell fishy
This makes more sense to me than all this talk of collusion. I think people, as usual, are reading way too much into things. We don't know what the nature of the contract talks were between Monty and the Bruins management. Maybe he had a good enough sense that they were looking to move on, or were just hard-balling him, and maybe he knew St. Louis was a possibility.
