Boston Bruins are set to take next step in hiring a new head coach following recent announcement

It has been revealed that Don Sweeney has narrowed down his coaching search and he is no longer waiting on head coach candidates that are currently in postseason contention.

On Wednesday, May 22nd, a phone conversation was held with the Herald during a break from the team's amateur scouting meetings since Vermont.

During this call, Sweeney opened up about his recent general manager extension, expressing that the extension helps in that endeavour, but he also didn't think the lack of an extension would be much of a road bloating either.

«I've been able to separate the personal and the professional in this situation. I understand everyone's attention is focusing on going into the last year (of his contract). I've been very honest in all my coaching discussions in terms of where I sit and why I'm looking forward to hiring a coach to set up the Boston Bruins and a lot of what we did at the deadline,» Don Sweeney stated.

«And I did it with the intention of being here but also with the intention of the organization being the priority. And I think any coach wanting to coach the Boston Bruins should have the same outlook of working together. All the coaches I've spoken to expressed sincere interest in coaching the Boston Bruins and the opportunity that's there. They know what the organization represents and I think that's come to the forefront.

Sweeney continued:

«Does it help in terms of alignment when we're talking? Yeah, there's no question it takes away some of the question marks as you're going through the process. One of the things I talked about as a priority is a coach that knows how to communicate across a wide spectrum of players. That's what's required of head coaches now at this level. You've got young players, you've got established players, you've got players that are working their way up the lineup. So to have a line of communication between the coach and the GM, it's always an important variable, so I'm appreciative that we have that The timing, it's probably unique in the fact that we're going through a coaching search, but deep down, I think I was separating personal and the professional in my approach to things.»

Sweeney said he expects to have a coach in place «well before» the June draft.

«We've had this discussion with (CEO) Charlie (Jacobs), (team president) Cam (Neely) and myself. We think it's important to have a coach and start to re-establish that leadership group and have those open dialogues with the coach and organizationally,» said Sweeney. «I think we'd be comfortable either way. We have excellent candidates (David Pastrnak and Charlie McAvoy being the obvious ones), so we'd be comfortable either way. We'll let it play out naturally with the leadership of this group and have it get re-established and then we'll make an organizational decision.»

For now, the Boston Bruins head coaching candidates were not revealed, however, the likelihood of a replacement for the organization's current interim head coach is seemingly on the rise.

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