Haggs: Will ‘Softer’ Coaching Style Succeed With Boston Bruins? |BHN+

PLYMOUTH, MA – As extra time has handed, it’s turn into an increasing number of clear as to what was actually behind the teaching change that’s led to Jim Montgomery beginning the 12 months behind the Boston Bruins bench after the firing of Bruce Cassidy.

It definitely wasn’t about total success on the ice as Cassidy posted a 245-108-46 report throughout his six NHL seasons in Boston, led the group to the Stanley Cup Last in 2019 and had a .672 factors share over that point. Granted, Cassidy and his Boston Bruins groups by no means bought over the hump through the playoffs and ended with a really disappointing first spherical exit towards the Carolina Hurricanes final spring, however the outcomes on the ice had been by no means the issue coming off a season the place Boston completed with 51 wins and 107 factors.

As an alternative, this was a couple of disconnect between the gamers and the pinnacle coach. It doesn’t sound prefer it was all of the gamers, as Taylor Corridor attested to throughout Thursday’s Boston Bruins Basis Golf Match at Pine Hills in Plymouth. As an alternative, it was largely a couple of group of younger gamers that wanted a “softer” contact from a head coach in Cassidy that didn’t hesitate to name gamers out, together with established, veteran gamers with prolonged NHL resumes.