A Major Development Has Surfaced In The Boston Bruins Hiring John Tortorella As Their Next Head Coach

The Boston Bruins this season have done a complete 180 in regard to the makeup of the team. Core players shipped out, and a Head Coach fired 20 games into the regular season, a retool should've been expected.

Now, after March, it all seems for naught as Joe Sacco and Don Sweeney have lost the trust of the fanbase.

At the moment this piece was written, Joe Sacco had a record of 22-25-6, with a winning percentage of .472.

Who could the Bruins replace Sacco with, as far as a coach with the kind of pedigree GM Don Sweeney and Cam Neely like?

John Tortorella!

He's won one Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning and experienced his longest tenure as a coach in the NHL. He'd remain behind the bench for several years.

Since then, he'd been a hired gun in the NHL to help straighten out rosters that are full of talent who underperform or lack discipline.

During his tenure in the Columbus Blue Jackets system, he found success turning the team into a 16-game winning team during the 2016-2017 season.

Tortorella not only is a Massachusetts native, but he's an experienced winner at both the NHL and AHL levels. He began his career in 1988, coaching the Rochester Americans, and would win his first Calder Cup in 1996.

He'd be hired by the New York Rangers as head coach during the 1999-2000 season and has since coached 1,620 games in the NHL. He's one of the winningest American head coaches with a record of 770-648-37 only second to Peter Laviolette with 742 all-time wins.

Tortorella's experience as a discipline-first coach would tighten up the ranks, which have eroded due to attrition and trades.

He may have a short life expectancy, as we've seen in Philadelphia, but what matters most is someone who can build a team the right way, since Joe Sacco can't dig himself out of the hole we've seen him in.

Would you give John Tortorella a shot at coaching the Bruins?