Speculation: Potential Coaching Replacements for Jim Montgomery

[Ozzy Osbourne]

I didn't know we were buddies in the standings!

If you fire Monty, we probably will hire him. A French speaking warm rock gets hired by the Habs....because it's no longer the hard core win-at-any-cost teams of old.

The Big Bad Bruins and the Lions of Winter are now the Big Bad Poo Bears and the p***yes of Winter...

 

[KurtDangle]

Darryl Sutter would be my choice.

 

[DKH]

Monty a nice guy but he was hired to coach and he drove the 22-23 Ferrari off a cliff because he decided he’d explore ‘what’s down that road’

People break up all the time - from junior high right thru marriage relationships disolve

I went to the game Saturday and the Bruins brought it - probably only game of 11 but it was there

Without passion you don’t accomplish much

The passion is gone the relationship stale

Folks need to chill the overreaction

You take steps not overhaul

#Sacco Magic

 

[Dicky113]

Not sure how anyone can look at this roster and think changing the coach will help. We have one, maybe two top six forwards ffs.

 

[DKH]

Darryl Sutter would be my choice.

I can dig a guy who played in the 70’s

Bring in Mike zO’Connell who drafted Betgeron, Krejci and traded for Marco Sturm while GM -and signed Thomas

O’Connell was a teammate of Stan Mikita and his father the QB of the Cleveland Browns handing ball to Jim Brown arguably the greatest football player ever just ahead of Brady and Deacon Jones

OConnell GM
Darryl Sutter Coach

Let’s go !!!!!

Not sure how anyone can look at this roster and think changing the coach will help. We have one, maybe two top six forwards ffs.

Hey!!!!! We got someone - me

 

[BHD]

I (a Pens fan) saw Sullivan mentioned in the OP...

He did an outstanding job during his first two years (both leading to Cups), but his approach has come into question since. He continues to instill a system based on speed, even though the Pens do not have the legs for it. Do the Bruins have the legs to apply pressure in all three zones? His line combinations are hit or hiss.

Speaking of which... He aslo stumbled upon the HBK line before the first Cup. He put the line together last minute when Malkin was out of the lineup. Do the Bruins have the depth to put a premier goal scorer (Kessel) on the third line?

And like any other Pens coach, he has two generational players (and a game-breaking defenseman) to defer to.

I realize some Bruins fans may be having flashbacks to him being a first time coach overseeing a core in it's prime (Thornton, Samsonov, etc.), but he's in the same group as Lavy. He's only good with a veteran group that is ready to compete.

 

[BruinDust]

I (a Pens fan) saw Sullivan mentioned in the OP...

He did an outstanding job during his first two years (both leading to Cups), but his approach has come into question since. He continues to instill a system based on speed, even though the Pens do not have the legs for it. Do the Bruins have the legs to apply pressure in all three zones?

He aslo stumbled upon the HBK line before the first Cup. He put the line together last minute when Malkin was out of the lineup. Do the Bruins have the depth to put a premier goal scorer (Kessel) on the third line?

And like any other Pens coach, he had two generational players leading the way.

I realize some Bruins fans may be having flashbacks to him being a first time coach overseeing a core in it's prime (Thornton, Samsonov, etc.), but he's in the same group as Lavy. He's only good with a veteran group that is ready to compete.

Prefers man-on-man defense which this group is absolutely not built for.

One of the major issues right now is they are trying to play a hard forechecking game and don't have the skating ability to make it work outside of what was the Beecher-Kastelic-Koepke line (which is probably why it worked).

Dump-ins are already on their way back out of the zone by the time forecheckers get there. Most hits (looking at you Trent Frederic) are well after the puck is gone the other way, taking one Bruin out of the play on the back-check. The heavy forecheck is leaving that 3rd man wide open on the backcheck and teams are having a field day in the mid-to-high slot.

This team really built to gum up the neutral zone with a 1-2-2/1-3-1/1-4 and hope to capitalize on mistakes.