PlayMakers
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What are the options? Most of us don’t hear the back door chatter that you insiders do. How can we talk about offloading a malcontent if we don’t know who they are?
Speculation: Potential Coaching Replacements for Jim Montgomery
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I'm going to assume he means Sacco when Monty was hired two years ago. If the Bruins wanted a fresh slate with Monty and new voices for the team to listen to, it didn't make sense to keep an assistant who is now working under his 3rd head coach boss for the same team. Maybe Sacco is a little bitter he keeps getting passed over for the job after paying his dues for 10 years now?
Never forget how happy and elated Avs fans were when Sacco left.
DominicT
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What I said is something I've been saying for two years. Someone needed to be fired two years ago.
We can debate who that should have been, but someone needed to pay the price.
I don't know what this insider stuff is all about.
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DKH
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Yes. I remember it well. Avalanche HFB legends Lanch Armstrong & Hackey Sakic saying they celebrated by getting stoned and jumping off the Tallahassee Bridge screaming ‘Sacco sucks’
Lanch was wearing a Ray Bourque signed 2003 Avs jersey and unfortunately it didn’t have the fight strap and ……
RIP
DKH
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Sacco Magic
He’s kinda sorta the VP here ~ he was named associate coach so he takes over
0.0 he doesn’t get the job
I’ll bet anyone a real TD Garden cheesesteak if Monty goes he’s got the job
Heck I’ll take a sausage peppers and onions - very good also
That Garden Grille is legit folks. Legit
You tell me what game your going I’ll show up for a free dinner
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quietbruinfan
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This team is built for Claude Julien style hockey.
If Monty was ever fired, they should hire someone from outside like maybe Gallant, but you know they will just promote Sacco or Leach.
Go back and check the numerous, absurdly atrocious coaching "decisions" Sunny Jim made in the first round of the 2023 playoffs against Florida and you will find your answer.
"In his system or whatever he calls it."
There you have it.
Did the players suddenly get stupid? Or are they poorly coached?
Does Montgomery have a defensive system?
A scheme?
A plan?
Please to answer.
Donnie Shulzhoffer
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That and several other highly dubious incidents.
For example, he allowed Patrice to play in a meaningless late season Montreal game, the game in which Bergeron was injured.
With the first round against the Panthers set to begin, Montgomery asked Patrice if he was good to go.
Unsurprisingly, Bergeron replied in the affirmative.
If you recall correctly, Bergeron and DK#46 did not play in the first few games of that series. You may also recall, they were up three games to one when Montgomery inserted both into the lineup.
Both were banged up. Both were subpar. Both played a role in the Bruins subsequent implosion.
Think about this.
You are the head coach of an NHL club.
It is under your purview, and it is your ultimate responsibility to decide who plays, and who does not.
Patrice Bergeron is a first ballot Hall of Fame inductee. Perhaps they will even rename the Frank Selke award after him.
Nevertheless, a head coach does not defer to any of his players. He makes the decisions. He is the final arbiter.
Incredibly, Montgomery ceded this responsibility to a player, not least a player who was obviously injured and hence likely to prove ineffective. Which was the case.
Amateur hour.
Do I make too much of this? Perhaps.
Yet it is only a minor illustration among many of Jim Montgomery's incompetence and unsuitability for the job of an NHL head coach.
I could cite several examples to support my argument.
Should they wish to do so, others can take up the case from there,
