Did Jim Montgomery WANT TO Get Fired By The Bruins?
On Monday’s edition of Felger & Mazz, the guys reacted to the news of former Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery signing a five year deal with the St. Louis Blues to be their next coach. This led to Felger raising the question on whether or not Montgomery, in fact, wanted to be fired by the Bruins.
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What is this? Three stooges podcast?
Monty is a sabotager. He sabotaged us by changing the lines on year 1. He then sabotaged us by changing the lines this year. Good luck at Louis. Montgomery is a psychological text book case
Are you kidding me? How about Neely and Sweeney are morons. Do we need to bring up a 2015 draft?
100% had this in his back pocket the whole time. Don't think he is a good coach; the players just enjoyed the reprieve from Butch and had a great year in Monty's 1st year in Boston (even tho Butch is a great coach). But this all leads back to Sweeney creating situations where he has lost all leverage. Bad drafts. Bad trades.
you guys just played 2 of the worst teams it’s not that crazy
Boston is old and needs a retool.
I don't know what's crazier…. The fact that they actually let these three clowns talk about hockey, or the fact that anyone takes Ty Anderson seriously as a source
Give Felger a list of the players on the Bruins' last names and tell him to list their first names. Guarantee he gets 5+ wrong. But he's well-versed enough to say that he "doesn't think Montgomery finds any success, don't think he's much of a coach"…. Blow me
Felger you sound like a idiot .. Jim's not a good coach ..wow this guy knows nothing
Felger doesn't know hockey!!
Montgomery is a good man and wish him good luck with the Blues. But I do think he changed the Bruins lines too often. So the players had no chemistry and of course you will lose games. He even did this during the playoffs.
St. Louis to win the Cup next?
Montgomery was like George Costanza trying to get fired by the Yankees..😂😂
St. Louis did us a favor… That 1st. round exit in '23 will haunt this team for a long time coming. That failure was all on Monty and his coaching staff. If Swayman didn't stand on his head a year ago, Toronto would of advanced to the 2nd. round… See ya…
Maybe it’s just as simple that teams view Monty as a good coach…Felger’s jumping on the Sweeney/Neely bs leaks. It will be funny if/when we find out they had a deal agreed to before the season only to be pulled back when Sweeney realized his signing weren’t working…they look the same as they did in the preseason. You don’t try to get out of a coaching gig for the B’s, it’s a top destination for any coach…doesn’t make sense, nice job getting clicks
The line juggling alone.
What the hell, does seem like he wanted fired for the Blues.
I have no idea what this show is….But All of St.Louis is laughing at you. What a clueless take😂😂
So it does seem li 8:16 ke the Cassidy exit. Montgomery is a good fit for St Louis having a long history there as player and coach including a Cup win in 2019.
There is no doubt that Montgomery was working the St Louis thing behind the scenes.
They wanted Montgomery over Bannister but he was under contract with Boston so they hired Bannister and waited for his contract to be up! Sweeny and Montgomery didn’t get along and Cam Neely didn’t like Monty either!
Montgomery did not want E. Lindholm or Zadorov. They didn’t fit his system. But, he had no say in that. If you watch his pre game interview, Monty says “from the owner to the front office knows what they’re doing.” Monty was fired on Tuesday and on Wednesday the Blues GM called and said come back here. Monty did what he could do with the players he had. Even the players said “we aren’t playing to our full potential.” If the front office doesn’t get the coach involved on the players he needs then what’s the sense on even having a coach? Cam & Neely are going to do what THEY think is best without any in out by the coach. Both are next on the hot seat.
I mean.. Montgomery said in a Blues media interview that he was surprised when Army offered him the job. He said he thought it was going to be a social "sorry you lost your job" call but I guess he could have lied.
these guys must think Major League was a documentary. The coach can't make the Bruins mediocre on their own. The Bruins were just underperforming.
The Bruins in recent years have prided themselves on their culture and I really didn't think it changed that fast. This may sound weird but what's the chance he actually asked to be fired and Sweeney did him a wink-wink favor knowing that St Louis would pick it up? Sweeney and Monty didn't agree hockey-wise obviously. Monty is a go play kinda guy that doesnt seem to be all that system oriented so Sweeny goes out and increased size and took away the speed game. Sweeneys way does work with a coach that sees things that way. They can win a bunch of 3-2, 2-1 games, but Monty doesnt play that way and those conflicting styles butt heads big time.
Good lord, when did The View start covering hockey? What a bunch a whiny ferries!
FFS Boston. Thanks for the coach. 🫡
Felger has hands made for radio…
Monty is a class act and a good NHL coach. Bruins management is inept.
who cares? the bruins suck, it was time for a change, how tthe hell did lindholm miss that wide open net with 30 secs left?? marchand screened goalie.
See you screwy see you in Saint Louie
The guy blew a three games to one lead against Florida by not switching goalies should have been fired for that
Maybe STL didn’t do their due diligence? Lol you guys have no clue. By your logic the Bruins are going to be perfect after this. Guy played for the Blues, married a woman from STL, has kept a residence in STL, had drinking problems lost his job in Dallas when he recovered Army & STL gave him his second chance, assistant coach in STL and knows the players owner and front office of STL. Due diligence? Give me a break.
“I don’t think Montgomery will have success”
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