HEARTBREAKING🚨:Boston Bruins fires head coach Jim Montgomery due to shocking reasons….

Well, if you think the Coach was the problem, you got what you wanted. The Bruins announced today at 4:19pm that they have relieved Head Coach Jim Montgomery of his job, effective immediately. This has come off of a deeply disappointing start to the season, in which the Bruins are 8-9-3, are on a three game losing streak, have one of the worst goal differentials in the Atlantic Division, and have of course, lost 5-1 in an absolute drubbing by the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Joe Sacco, the assistant coach, will fill the position in the meantime.

Bruce Cassidy, who had guided the team to six seasons of stellar regular season records and erratic postseason results, was fired shortly after Montgomery was hired, raising questions about whether his coaching style would interfere with the team’s ability to play. Monty appeared to support that notion in the first season, leading the Bruins to a season with a record-breaking 135 points that ended in heartbreak in the first round.

Even though he was without Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci, and his club was, to put it mildly, a mess when it came to possession, Monty’s approach seemed to work its magic once more as the Bruins had another season with 100 points or more.

To his credit, his straightforward plan of action—mixing lines almost continuously and using those snap chemistries to hammer the net—worked incredibly well. Unfortunately, the Florida Panthers convincingly rubbed it off again in the second round of the playoffs, and that brings us to this year. In short, nothing has gone right for Boston.

Nearly no skater is having a good season, the team’s offensive is in a terrible state, and if they are, it is because they are injured (get well soon, Hampus). Both goalkeepers are currently hovering precariously above or below because of the Swayman fiasco, which has led to a very dismal season for the goalie. Korpisalo has been stronger recently, but the skaters’ constant misery has resulted in absolutely squandered performances in the net.900 in SV%.

Naturally, all of these things happening at once meant it all had to fall on someone, and Montgomery was it. To his credit, it genuinely seems as though Monty was both deeply concerned and exasperated with how the team was playing. He’s made it clear through quote after quote that he does not get why the act of playing hockey had become such a challenge, and knew that the team was off it’s game from day one. Thus, he tried everything he possibly could to end up getting them back on track.