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Speculation: Who should the Bruins hire as their next Head Coach?

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Who should the Bruins hire as their next Head Coach?

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GordonHowe said:
Put it this way:

It is possible that Sweeney will select someone from outside the organization who will excite the fan base and intrigue the media.

Hooray for him if he does.

Yet by temperament, Don Sweeney is the cautious, conservative sort. He prefers to go with what he knows, and what he is comfortable with. That would be Jay Leach. Or perhaps Mike Sullivan.

As for Sacco over Leach at the time of Montgomery's dismissal, my sense, and that is all it is, is that they were not going to throw Leach into the frying pan and risk the possibility of failure, and therefore damage to Jay's prospects of coaching the Bruins in future.

Hence, the underwhelming and easy choice of Joe Sacco. If they had turned it around, and made the playoffs, great. If you recall, they improved for a few games using a simpler, defense first style of play. Unfortunately for the interim head coach, this did not last.

Better Sacco the sacrificial lamb than the untried, as yet untarnished Jay Leach.

The selection of either Sullivan or Leach will be greeted with a collective yawn by the Bruins fan base. Doubtless accompanied by mass rolling of the eyes.

Again, it is likely more important to Don Sweeney that he is "comfortable" with his new head coach.

I didn't say I agree, at all, with this approach.

I said the safe choice will likely be the ultimate choice.

I hate SweeNeely.
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Leach will be in consideration and is probably the favorite. They made a big deal about bringing him back here and they didn’t give him the job this season only because they knew this was a shit situation. A huge plus for Leach too is that he wore the sweater in Boston and he’s coached in the organization. If they don’t go with Pandolfo or Donato they’re going to go with someone who has ties to the organization. Sullivan is interesting to this theory because he’s been a coach here before so he’s another guy that Sweeney Cam and Harry know well. But I agree as much as I’d like an innovative mind with zero Bruins ties there is zero chance Sweeney goes with that.

Also if you’re going to make a joke out of this and have Leach coach the team you might as well decide to give Milbury the job and see if HBO wants to do the first ever season of Hard Knocks NHL.
 
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Mr. Make-Believe said:
You know who most people want as a coach without ever admitting it?

Themselves.

They want someone who gets emotional at a missed call by the officials. They want someone who will bench the player they see as lazy. A coach who will be candid with the media and fans, but only as candid as they see as acceptable. They want someone who will play the lineups they want to see and the goaltender they want in net. They want a team that will listen when they shout “shoot the f***ing puck!” at their televisions.

And anything else is unacceptable, consistently “outcoached” and needs to be fired.
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Anytime I watch playoff hockey and see "so and so is getting outcoached" I ask, "well how is he getting outcoached?" and get the line, "they don't make any adjustments." I then ask, "what adjustments would you like to see?" and then it usually just boils down to what line changes they want.
 
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Torts might be actually worse than the people pining for Sullivan.

The dude got fired because he basically came out and said "i don't care." That's the guy people want?

From 2 days ago, in case we all need a reminder

When you’re in this type of situation, you’re losing all of the time, and there is nothing at the end of the tunnel for you; there’s certainly going to be some frustration," Tortorella said. "This falls on me. I’m not really interested in learning how to coach in this type of season where we’re at right now. I have to do a better job. "So this falls on me, getting the team prepared to play the proper way until we get to the end."
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Number8 said:
I hate hate hate the idea of Z or Bergeron being GM, Pres of Operations, or anything of the like.

Not because they couldn't do it (although I don't know if they could). But because fans almost always eat their young over time..

Many fans "hate" Cam Neely. Think about that for a second. Really think about it.

- Prototypical power forward in the NHL.
- Goal scoring machine.
- HHOF player with a well deserved Jersey in the Garden rafters
- 50 in 50 goal scorer while endlessly rehabbing a leg that would force him to retire
- Massive hitter who intimidated everyone
- An often scary, rage filled fighter
- A player who virtually always delivered something good - almost never had off nights.
- HUGE community leader and a man that for decades has given back to those in real hardship
- Never seen a "off ice" incident or story that showed poor (if human) judgement or mis-steps
- A President who fires water bottles at walls (yes, we all laugh, but don'twe all love the passion?)

And yet because we don't like all of his moves or influence as an executive (and none of us really know who does what when in Bruins management) many fans state that they "hate" him.

Ugh. Don't do that to Z or Bergie. Giving beloved players that job is tempting fate and underestimates what is needed to be a good GM or team President. Being a local fan favorite and HHOF player doesn't hurt but I suspect those assets are more of a "nice to have" than a core competency requirement.
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What Cam did as a player and what he does as a president are two separate things in my book. I will always love Cam as a Bruin even if I don’t like some of his decisions as management.
 
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chrisab123 said:
I’d like him over any of the guys with Bruins ties.
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Wrong guy though, wherever he goes he brings the circus with him and there's already one here with the revolving coaching carousel that Sweeney been playing musical chairs with.

He also leaves Philly because he didn't want to coach a team who's been in a rebuild for 5 years running. Can't blame him, but the Bruins are certainly in a rebuild -retool so why would he want to come here and beside all that, there's no way Neely/Sweeney would think about bringing him in even before his comments about not wanting to coach his team. At least I hope not. lol
 
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John Tortorella commanding his first practice as the Boston Bruins Tank Commander.
Zacha, Pastrnak, and Geekie lead the way with Rookies Lysell, Beecher, Lindholm, Brown, Koepke, Lettieri, and Lauko get "bag skated" trailing behind as they are forced to carry theirs. Center rear is McAvoy skating in a noncontact-for-the-rest-of-the-season jersey.
 
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