Issues will not be going nicely for the Boston Bruins early within the 2024-25 season, and so they solely managed to worsen on Tuesday evening with a 4-0 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
That loss drops them to 6-7-1 on the season, and even worse than the report is the actual fact they merely don’t look good in reaching that report.
It is sufficient to marvel if head coach Jim Montgomery might be on the recent seat. Or if his seat is at the very least getting just a little bit heat.
Which may appear to be an overreaction to a sluggish begin, particularly since Montgomery is just in his third 12 months with the Bruins and has been extraordinarily profitable by way of the common season.
In his first 12 months, the Bruins tied an NHL report for normal season wins and gained the Presidents’ Trophy with the league’s finest report. Final season, they gained 47 video games and a playoff spherical.
Most coaches could be relative safe with that latest monitor report.
However NHL groups are likely to have brief leases with their coaches, particularly when they’re expectations. And the Bruins definitely have expectations. The issue is these expectations are for playoff success, and that’s the one factor Montgomery has failed. Regardless of the entire common season success the previous two seasons, they’ve gained only a single playoff collection throughout that point, and have been eradicated within the first spherical after profitable that Presidents’ Trophy.
Additionally they spent massive cash this offseason on free brokers Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov.
With stars like David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand, Charlie McAvoy and Jeremy Swayman already in place, one other step backwards was not going to be acceptable. Nor ought to it’s.
Only a month into the season, they give the impression of being to be taking one other step backwards and it’s tough to see the way it quickly turns round.
The dearth of a real No. 1 heart, a declining protection and the departure of considered one of their prime goalies (Linus Ullmark) is perhaps an excessive amount of to beat in a extremely robust division and convention.
The NHL often has an early season teaching change. Boston is perhaps on the radar to be that staff this season if issues don’t flip round quickly.
