Bruins hire Jim Montgomery as HC
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“Unprofessional conduct” is being a drunk?
not sure I love this but no clue who the other options were
not sure I love this but no clue who the other options were
He’s an excellent coach in my opinion having watched him back when he was at Denver. He got the most out of those teams even if they were not the most talented. The Bruins could have done a lot worse aka Dave Quinn.
No offense, but you’ve been dumping out some terrible takes with alarming frequency, what’s going on?
Montgomery was a great coach in college and an OK one in Dallas. That team was extremely conservative but good defensively. I'd MUCH rather have him than Quinn but I'd be shocked if this is the guy that unlocks creative ways to score for this forward group.
If you're truly interested, he acknowledged the Stars made the right decision as he works to overcome his problems.
Jim Montgomery on Stars dismissal, road to sobriety: 'That firing was deserved' | Sporting News
I really haven't been following his coaching career, but I must say that being from Maine, this particular performance is one of my favorite hockey memories. Just look at what he did in the third period of the 1993 NCAA hockey championship. One of the most underrated clutch performances in hockey history.
Jeremy Rutherford
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Montgomery had a great relationship with the Blues young players, particularly Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou, who had breakout 82-game seasons. From the sounds of the coaching change in Boston, that’s what the Bruins were looking for.
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Montgomery had a great relationship with the Blues young players, particularly Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou, who had breakout 82-game seasons. From the sounds of the coaching change in Boston, that’s what the Bruins were looking for.
Some background on Montgomery from Fluto.
https://theathletic.com/3394158/2022/06/30/bruins-coach-jim-montgomery/
Apparently he's good with younger players and has a positive personality. Helped young guys like Miro Heiskanen and Roope Hintz in Dallas and Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou develop. Gets some credit for STL's 5x5 offense this season. Dallas was a mixed bag offensively, hard to know if it's a system or the roster since they didn't score under Bowness either.
https://theathletic.com/3394158/2022/06/30/bruins-coach-jim-montgomery/
Apparently he's good with younger players and has a positive personality. Helped young guys like Miro Heiskanen and Roope Hintz in Dallas and Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou develop. Gets some credit for STL's 5x5 offense this season. Dallas was a mixed bag offensively, hard to know if it's a system or the roster since they didn't score under Bowness either.
That article argues that Montgomery's influence shaped the performance for the Blues prolific 5v5 offense this year. They were very good at high danger shot assists, so if he can being that here it could really help. Most of the jump in GF for the blues was on ice s% though so that doesn't really track.
I'm hopeful that there is more to Montgomery than what we saw in Dallas. I guess we will find out soon.
I'm hopeful that there is more to Montgomery than what we saw in Dallas. I guess we will find out soon.
The writing is on the wall with this hire. The rebuild is coming sooner than later and I think we'll see a lot of the young guys coming out of camp.
We kind of have to right? Like half the team is going to start the year on IR, so it'll be a good time to throw a bunch of young guys in, see what sticks, and hope to have everyone healthy along by the playoffs.
Chad Finn with a nice piece on their days at UMaine.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/03/sports/jim-montgomery-proved-his-mettle-with-young-players-decades-ago-with-one-you-know-paul-kariya/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/03/sports/jim-montgomery-proved-his-mettle-with-young-players-decades-ago-with-one-you-know-paul-kariya/
Gasper asks Charlie and Jeremy why the fired Cassidy but not Neely/Sweeney...
Edit: Neely's been to 3 Cups as President, Sweeney has a .600+ points percentage under his tenure is the Jacobs family answer
Edit: Neely's been to 3 Cups as President, Sweeney has a .600+ points percentage under his tenure is the Jacobs family answer
Nope. The gist was that they trust Cam and Don, here's their credentials, the coach falls under their area of responsibility so they were going to support whatever decision was made.
This was a really good piece. I remember being a freshman at Merrimack when these guys came down and they hype surrounding that was like the Chicago Bulls coming to town. I had like a 100 degree fever that day/night, but I didn't want to miss the show either night. They crushed the Warriors but looked so good doing it that it didn't matter.
The comment section for this piece was ... woof.
Fluto has a good, detailed article up where Montgomery goes over some of the system changes he'll be installing.
https://theathletic.com/3574203/2022/09/12/bruins-montgomery-new-system/
Essentially, they will play zone defense like they always have. It was installed under Julien and tweaked under Cassidy and the results speak for themselves.
There are more changes in transition and offense. They go into X's and O's in the article on the breakout but the idea is everyone moving. Doesn't always have to be north/south, but they don't want 2-3 guys flat footed at the same time.
Offensively, the biggest change is they are going away from a volume shot approach. Under Cassidy the Bruins routinely led or were near the top of the league in shot attempts, but not necessarily the high danger shots and of course goals. Analytically speaking, Monty doesn't want a shot attempt unless it has a greater than 5% chance of going in. He'd rather they hold the puck and wait for something to open up than fling a low percentage shot at the net. The data point they use was Monty's Blues team last year who were 25th in 5x5 shot attempts per 60, but were 5th in 5x5 goals.
https://theathletic.com/3574203/2022/09/12/bruins-montgomery-new-system/
Essentially, they will play zone defense like they always have. It was installed under Julien and tweaked under Cassidy and the results speak for themselves.
There are more changes in transition and offense. They go into X's and O's in the article on the breakout but the idea is everyone moving. Doesn't always have to be north/south, but they don't want 2-3 guys flat footed at the same time.
Offensively, the biggest change is they are going away from a volume shot approach. Under Cassidy the Bruins routinely led or were near the top of the league in shot attempts, but not necessarily the high danger shots and of course goals. Analytically speaking, Monty doesn't want a shot attempt unless it has a greater than 5% chance of going in. He'd rather they hold the puck and wait for something to open up than fling a low percentage shot at the net. The data point they use was Monty's Blues team last year who were 25th in 5x5 shot attempts per 60, but were 5th in 5x5 goals.
I like the theory, and dont know enough to know how to make it happen. Maybe its just a byproduct of moving. One thing is certain.....it will lead to a lot more yelling at the TV when they dont shoot.
On the flip side though, it will lead to a lot less yelling at the TV when they fire 30 non-competitive shots into the logo on the goalie’s jersey for a faceoff, instead of maintaining possession.
I for one look forward to the amount of drunks in the garden screaming "SHOOOOOOT THE PUCK!!!" its classic that never gets old.