Controversy Surfaces As New Details Emerge Regarding Jim Montgomery Wanting Out Of Boston
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GM Don Sweeney should have to answer for the firing of Jim Montgomery, who at this point in the NHL season has led the St. Louis Blues to a 12-game win streak.
The reason for the firing of Head Coach Jim Montgomery is looking more and more silly, now we're in the last stretch of the regular season.
With the St. Louis Blues, Jim Montgomery has taken them on a 12-game win streak, and it's angered NHL Insider Jimmy Murphy enough to make a statement on it.
Murphy believes that the whole Montgomery scenario played out all wrong and isn't buying the front-offices notion that he didn't want to be here.
Given, he didn't start the season with the Bruins so well, with an 8-9-3 record, but that was one of the many pretexts given for his firing.
While he's improved his regular-season record with a rebuilding St. Louis Blues team of 32-16-6.
You could say that Jim Montgomery's firing was unjustified, along with it being unnecessary.
"You might think it's a smaller sample size. I just didn't like the direction," Sweeney said. "We had a small little bump in terms of trying to play the right way in Philadelphia (3-0 win on Nov. 2) and going to Seattle (2-0 win on Nov. 3), but we couldn't maintain. That's just the parts of the things that bother me as a general manager where our team can't stay as close as they can, hanging through adversity."
This was Don Sweeney's reasoning for getting rid of a coach who had turned another team that was also considered bottom-dwellers into winners.
And now with Joe Sacco at the helm, it seems the team will have to look at other options during the post-season as he's fared no better than Sweeney originally did.
Did the Bruins fire Montgomery because he didn't fit into their good ole boys club?
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