Speculation: Potential Coaching Replacements for Jim Montgomery

[BigBadBruins7708]

But that doesn't account for the work-rate of the line, or the relative lack of stupid decisions, and other miscues, though.

it does though. when you know your linemates, what they do and where they'll be you can tailor your game to it. especially moving the puck around, you can anticipate. unfamiliarity is what leads to most mistakes on a new line because you need to anticipate and react, there's no time to think

 

[BamBamCam]

Is Lavoilette coaching in the NHL? I have always wanted him since we let him get away after coaching Providence.

Marc Savard I think would be an excellent fit. Whats Ference up to always expected him to coach an NHL team at some point?

I know he just retired in May so its probably too soon and it would be a very short term interim option but Bowness has to be worth a call if you aren't trying to make too risky a pick.

Wow

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

Wow

LOL exactly. Wow.

 

[BMC]

There is no way Claude comes back to coach this team. Not after Sweeney left him twisting in the wind as to whether he'd be back as coach (he was but only because Sweeney couldn't get someone as good or better) and the way he was fired.

No f***ing way.

 

[Thirty Seven]

A good point, but look at these lines:

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Does that not look like desperation by a coach to you?

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Because I am getting the distinct smell of desperation from a coach.

IS Monty the problem? Don't know, I would agree with you its the players. But you cant change the players wholesale and we are at the bottom of the Atlantic on Halloween. SOMETHING has to change in the next week or two if they dont turn things around.

I dislike everything about that forward group. Leave the 4th line alone.

 

[Dr Hook]

it does though. when you know your linemates, what they do and where they'll be you can tailor your game to it. especially moving the puck around, you can anticipate. unfamiliarity is what leads to most mistakes on a new line because you need to anticipate and react, there's no time to think

There is something to that for sure. But I still look at D pairings that should be familiar, or guys like Coyle-Frederic that should have that too by now (and Geekie). It's one thing to bring in a new guy like E. Lindholm, and another to have players like Pasta-Zacha who should know better. It's strange to me.

 

[BigGoalBrad]

LOL exactly. Wow.

Whats wrong with my candidates I don't follow other NHL teams that closely and just threw out 2 former players and 2 coaches that have somewhat been linked to the Bruins for a while?

Mike Babcock would be OK as well for an unpopular guy to kick the room into gear he might be a bully but he doesn't belong in prison like QUennville.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Whats wrong with my candidates I don't follow other NHL teams that closely and just threw out 2 former players and 2 coaches that have somewhat been linked to the Bruins for a while?

Mike Babcock would be OK as well for an unpopular guy to kick the room into gear he might be a bully but he doesn't belong in prison like QUennville.

Again.....wow

 

[DominicT]

Yes. Well aware of the player.

Also well aware of the coach and his credentials.

I want the coach not the player in this hypothetical situation.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

Whats wrong with my candidates I don't follow other NHL teams that closely and just threw out 2 former players and 2 coaches that have somewhat been linked to the Bruins for a while?

Mike Babcock would be OK as well for an unpopular guy to kick the room into gear he might be a bully but he doesn't belong in prison like QUennville.

Is this a bit? Please tell me this is a bit.

 

[Bad Hat Harry]

What about Looch? Tough guy, loved by fans, needs a job.

 

[Dreghorn2]

Sign. Me. Up.

That would be worth the price of admission.


All this slo mo bullshit was getting out of hand even in those days. It was a hockey play and maybe a quarter of a second late.

Uh, no.

That was very bad then and remains so to this day.

 

[JAD]

Yes. Well aware of the player.

Also well aware of the coach and his credentials.

I want the coach not the player in this hypothetical situation.

I thought of Dale Hunter too, but it seems he is kind of in a good place in life right now career wise.
Why would he want to leave that and return to NHL coaching?

 

[Dr Hook]

I thought of Dale Hunter too, but it seems he is kind of in a good place in life right now career wise.
Why would he want to leave that and return to NHL coaching?

Contra that, why wouldn't he want to be back in the NHL? That could be a good place in life, too, especially the pay. But they won't know that unless the job opens up and they ask, which is the point of this whole thread.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

I thought of Dale Hunter too, but it seems he is kind of in a good place in life right now career wise.
Why would he want to leave that and return to NHL coaching?

Money

 

[EverettMike]

Sign. Me. Up.

That would be worth the price of admission.


All this slo mo bullshit was getting out of hand even in those days. It was a hockey play and maybe a quarter of a second late.

There is literally no way you believe this.

 

[chizzler]

Quenville, but I doubt they would do it.

With that it will be somebody they can control over have better say over, IMO. Internal so most likely Leach or Sacco as others have said.

With that also, nothing should happen before December 1st. Give Monty more time as he deserves it

They won’t do it just like other teams haven’t. Has he even done any type of good will stuff? Not sure Monty deserves it. He rode a power house the first season. He didn’t need to do anything. Last year you started to see the beginnings of what you see now. To me it’s disorganized system. I don’t think the players were bailing out last year.

 

[chizzler]

Yes. Well aware of the player.

Also well aware of the coach and his credentials.

I want the coach not the player in this hypothetical situation.

Do you think the Bruins would even entertain that thought? I relate it to a Patrick Roy type coach. He could fly off the handle? Also, don’t both of the Hunters have ownership or some type of relationship with the ownership there?