Management Jim Montgomery

[rfournier103]

I get that the Canucks coach is gonna get the Jack Adams. Fine. I disagree, but fine.

But can we TALK about our coach?

To those of you who want him fired, honestly, I'd block every one of you if I could.

This guy is coaching a master class right now. With what he was handed for this season, one of the biggest rabbit out of a hat sports seasons I've seen. Let's end the series Monty. You're a gem.

I think he’s done a tremendous job this season with what he’s been given, and he’s having a great series against the Leafs. He seems to have learned a lot from last season’s loss to the Panthers. Of course, there’s still this series to close out, and I’m dying to see how he manages the Bruins in the next series, but I am very happy with Jim Montgomery this year.

 

[KnightofBoston]

Steve Dangle knows how good Monty is, thinks he’s the best coach in the NHL and he might be right.

It’s tough Cassidy went to Vegas and immediately won a cup after blah losses the the isles and canes and making some gutless moves and non moves against the blues, but I still think Monty was the right coach for the bruins at the time we got him.

And he might also only get better

 

[BigGoalBrad]

I don’t think he has many tough choices on Tuesday. Maybe benching Maroon if the Leafs sit Reeves. He got the D right benching Gryz and replacing Peeke when he went out. Goaltending as well Swayman has another extra day before the next game and if we do see Ullmark again it’s probably for a game that comes on 1 day rest.

If we can actually close a series for once up 3-1 Montgomery is going to remove a lot of doubts with 99.9% of our fanbase.

 

[Maine Fan]

I get that the Canucks coach is gonna get the Jack Adams. Fine. I disagree, but fine.

But can we TALK about our coach?

To those of you who want him fired, honestly, I'd block every one of you if I could.

This guy is coaching a master class right now. With what he was handed for this season, one of the biggest rabbit out of a hat sports seasons I've seen. Let's end the series Monty. You're a gem.

What did he do with the talent last season?

 

[Chevalier du Clavier]

I don’t think he has many tough choices on Tuesday. Maybe benching Maroon if the Leafs sit Reeves. He got the D right benching Gryz and replacing Peeke when he went out. Goaltending as well Swayman has another extra day before the next game and if we do see Ullmark again it’s probably for a game that comes on 1 day rest.

If we can actually close a series for once up 3-1 Montgomery is going to remove a lot of doubts with 99.9% of our fanbase.

You have more faith than I do.

 

[BigGoalBrad]

You have more faith than I do.

I don’t know what we’ll get tomorrow night I’m just relieved there’s no big decisions to be made. We’ve been so terrible in these spots for years that closing for once would change a lot of things.

A year ago vs Florida he also had to deal with a future HOF reinserting himself into the lineup when he wasn’t healthy enough to play and obviously stuck with a goalie that couldnt stop a beach ball and made some poor D moves.

 

[Mad-Marcus]

He's done more with less this year. He's allowed the development of multiple rookies. (maybe a quick trigger on returning some to the AHL, but they've always returned better)
Finally found, some stable lines, with the exception of moving the hottest winger up.
Last year was too easy to determine how good or bad of a coach he was. The goaltending issue in last years playoffs aside.(hindsight is always 20/20, to quote Dave Mustaine). Who expected the Vezina winner to not pull himself due to injury, neither did Tuukka.
With a lesser team, let's see what he does. If this series is an indicator of getting everyone engaged, he has certainly done it in this series. Having the goaltending wildfire that Sway is makes the decision easy, whether or not Linus plays Game 5.

 

[Chevalier du Clavier]

I don’t know what we’ll get tomorrow night I’m just relieved there’s no big decisions to be made. We’ve been so terrible in these spots for years that closing for once would change a lot of things.

A year ago vs Florida he also had to deal with a future HOF reinserting himself into the lineup when he wasn’t healthy enough to play and obviously stuck with a goalie that couldnt stop a beach ball and made some poor D moves.

The Bruins could win the Cup and it wouldn't remove doubts from 99.9% of the fan base. The Sox won the Series in 2018 and many fans think they did it despite Cora. They won two with Tito, yet some called him Fran-coma. The Dunning-Krueger effect is strong with many fan bases, including this one.

 

[nonoffensiveusername]

I'm holding out hope that his post-season decision making has improved over last year. It's tough for me to judge at this point because the laffs are less of a hockey team and more of a punchline.

 

[NDiesel]

What did he do with the talent last season?

Coached them to a record breaking season? Won the jack adams? Or did you expect all of that to happen before the start of the season?

 

[HumBucker]

I think he's done a tremendous job this season, and so far against the Leafs this series. Sitting Grizz, putting Pasta and Marchand together when needed, Lohrei with MacAvoy, going with Swayman against the possible impulse to "go with who brung ya" (the goalie rotation). Keep it going, Monty.

 

[McGarnagle]

I was *very* worried coming into this series after his disaster last year in the playoffs. Through four games I'm feeling good. Monty read the room on Swayman and has been pushing the right buttons without panicking.

Long way to go, but he looks like a coach who learned from last year.

 

[ODAAT]

I was *very* worried coming into this series after his disaster last year in the playoffs. Through four games I'm feeling good. Monty read the room on Swayman and has been pushing the right buttons without panicking.

Long way to go, but he looks like a coach who learned from last year.

think Monty is like a player in the sense that, prior to last year, as a head coach, he`d only been in the playoffs once before with Dallas if not mistaken, I think he`s learned from past mistakes , done a good job

 

[McGarnagle]

think Monty is like a player in the sense that, prior to last year, as a head coach, he`d only been in the playoffs once before with Dallas if not mistaken, I think he`s learned from past mistakes , done a good job

Last year the regular season was so easy that I think the combination of Florida's heaviness, Maurice's strategies, and the flu bug and Bergeron/Ullmark injuries just socked him in he mouth and he was coaching that series in a stupor.

Considering how him being in this job in the first place is consequence of him bouncing back from his past mistakes, I suppose his personal story makes him pliable to learn and develop where other coaches might be more stubborn and set in their ways.

 

[UncleRico]

What did he do with the talent last season?

Are we blaming Cassidy and Montgomery for ullmarks back-to-back sub .900 save percentage playoff runs?

Or can we finally blame a player instead of scape goating every coach that comes through here

 

[Yeti34]

Coaching good winning games then goes on to scratch his best face of man and insert his softest D.

Monty is a mediocre coach. He can get better but he’s absolutely a middle of the pack coach.

 

[Healthy Wrap]

I hate this man

 

[McGarnagle]

I was *very* worried coming into this series after his disaster last year in the playoffs. Through four games I'm feeling good. Monty read the room on Swayman and has been pushing the right buttons without panicking.

Long way to go, but he looks like a coach who learned from last year.

I take it back

 

[Widdlez]

I have literally no faith in this man anymore, absolutely baffling unforced errors with the playoff lineup

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

A firm defender of his going back to elimination last season. He has brought this mediocre roster to where it is.

That said, every single decision was a failure tonight. The media should let him have it.

Shatternkirk was not good with the puck in the 3rd last game. Yet Gryz is proven to be the same or worse in the playoffs.

Maroon cannot skate. On the ice one minute into OT.

Maroon cannot skate. Instead of replacing with Brazeau/Lauko/Beecher... slow the roster even more.

Remove the most consistent face off center.

Change the lines.
Failure. Every decision.

 

[Number8]

Please for the love of god will some reporter ask him to justify his personnel decisions for this game. He needs to explain.

EDIT: Bless you Sophia. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Bless you.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

"Monty" just does what he's instructed by the Jacobs family : lose and force another home game. As a french canadian, former habs player from Montreal, it's a pleasure for him to screw this fanbase.

 

[BruinDust]

At the end of the day, he might just be too nice of a guy.

Brazeau in tonight was charity. Any notion of tossing Forbort into this series is favor in one sense and doing Forbort no favors in another.

Maybe you ask your Cup-winning D-man with over 1000 games NHL experience (Shattenkirk) if he's got one more in him instead of re-inserting Gryz who has been abused on the Leaf forecheck.

 

[BiteThisBurrows]

Are we blaming Cassidy and Montgomery for ullmarks back-to-back sub .900 save percentage playoff runs?

Or can we finally blame a player instead of scape goating every coach that comes through here

I would suggest it's both and not one or the other.

In the playoffs your best players need to be your best players and DeBrusk, Zacha and Pasternak just haven't been. Marchand has stepped up as usual and Coyle is working his butt off but the big 3 offensive guys just aren't. That's on the players not the coach.

The line up decisions tonight? Baffling. Beecher out? Gryz in? Makes no sense at all. Also in terms of game plan we should have been all over them physically early with a forecheck and they would have folded, but we played some sort of careful collapse defense and, although they defended well, you just knew it could easily end up like it did. Just dumb.

They learned absolutely nothing from last year.

 

[Clode]

This man is his own worst enemy