Blidh did after basically getting benched for the season for taking a penalty at the end of a game - krejci did with a little bit humor. It’s pretty rare for any player to criticize a coach at all publicly.
Goodluck to Blidh-ers... I would be surprised if he returns
Chara was/is great, but I don't think whether its him or Bergy as captain, it would make Cassidy reach out anymore to Anton blidh
I’m just saying that it seemed like when Chara was here he did a lot of things with younger players that they missed after he left
I suspect Tara will show up at the news conference on Monday. She pushed Belichick last season when the beat writers wouldn't and putting this column in the Sunday Globe sets her up to pursue this.
Word is out that Bruins players had their say in Bruce Cassidy’s firing. It’s a risky revelation. - The Boston Globe
Players should certainly be heard, but it’s a fine line when they have a hand in pulling the strings.www.bostonglobe.com
But it was in the middle of a pre-draft conversation with reporters that Bruins president Cam Neely, intentionally or not, shed a little more light on what still has to be considered a shocking dismissal of a successful coach.
In the midst of confirming that Jake DeBrusk had rescinded his trade demand, Neely made it pretty clear players were chafing under Cassidy’s tough hand and were clearly ready for a change. The long-rumored notion was amplified when former NHL defenseman Ryan Whitney said on his podcast that he’d heard “the players really hated him.”
Given the chance to dispel the assertion, Neely all but did the opposite, saying, “I like to keep things in the locker room. Obviously, if others want to talk, that’s their prerogative. Right or wrong, when you have a coach five, six, seven years and the players remain on a club . . . unfortunately at some point the voice does get old.
“We’re going to see a little bit of a different approach, maybe change things up a little, that hopefully excites our fanbase. I’m excited about it.”
Which, really, is fine. Coaches, at least those not named Bill Belichick, are hired to be fired. They know it, we know it, players know it.
But what should concern the Bruins’ front office now is how much the players know it, and how risky it could be to put Montgomery in a position where he knows the players know it. Players should certainly be heard, but it’s a fine line when they have a hand in pulling the strings, and no coach wants to be on the wrong side of that line knowing how much it can erode respect inside a locker room.
Bingo. Went and read the article before reading this thread. Wally and yourself have it correct. Wasted my time reading an article that has no hard evidence of anything new. Same typical crap from the media and front office that happens too frequently when someone leaves the organization.
It makes me wonder, why wasting time in a lazy article like this one... when they can ask the difficult questions we want to know... it's like they're afraid of asking real questions and decide to go on a crusade with no gas in the tank.
She’s writing for casual fans who don’t scour podcasts and message boards for information. She credited sources and used them to piece together a hockey article in July. The jist of her narrative certainly fits what we’ve seen and heard.
Who owns the Globe? Who owns the Penguins? Who has a vested interest in knocking a competitor for entertainment dollars down by any means necessary? If you’re a Patriots fan at all you already know how the Globe operates. This is now KPD, Gasper, and Sullivan with spaced out hit pieces. It doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to see what’s going on…
Not the point. When the owner of the biggest newspaper in town (and the Bruins cable network) runs three pieces - two from writers who don’t exactly get in the locker room and dig in with the team - all criticizing the management group for deciding to fire the coach, it’s really not much of a stretch to see what the angle is.
Why are some people pretending this is something new? The same thing happened to the same coach almost 20 years ago.
Because it would always be kept quiet as possible. Now with social media everything gets out by everyone. These young skaters have to now waste time thinking about their image and the owners pander.
A guy that played for him in 2004 went on a podcast and ripped him. Are you saying players shouldn’t talk about coaches or stories from when they played? People talk, it’s not like the players are making tweets about Cassidy. It was leaked because people talk, just like when Cassidy coached Washington.
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