If Bruins don't get to the ECF, could Montgomery be on the hot seat?

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If Bruins don't get to the ECF, could Montgomery be on the hot seat? Is there a better chance Monty gets an extension, or they move on?

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00:00And that is Bruins coach Jim Montgomery, who is in the final season of his contract

00:08and Wiggy expects great results or maybe a new head coach for the Boston Bruins.

00:14Well, you guys said what Eastern Conference finals, right?

00:16You and Sham, I believe, if he doesn't make it to the Eastern Conference finals.

00:21Here's a better question.

00:22Do you think he gets an extension throughout the year?

00:25Mid-season.

00:26Mid-season.

00:26Do you think he's the Alex Kora road?

00:28I think they probably, I think they, that Cam Neely and Don Sweeney look at him and

00:32think he's done a pretty good job.

00:34I mean, I, you know, it's the playoffs that, that he has not achieved what you would hope

00:41he would have achieved.

00:42He's had the best regular season team in the history of the sport.

00:47Right.

00:49And so I think he saved his job.

00:52I don't know.

00:52Do you think he saved his job last season when they were able to advance?

00:56I don't think he was ever getting canned last season.

00:58I don't think they were going to can him after two years.

01:00You don't think if they were wanting done last season, which they almost were, that

01:03he would have been gone?

01:04No, I think he would have been shine.

01:06Why do you think that they went with corpus hollow last night?

01:08If Montgomery's saying beforehand, you know, Swayman's an option.

01:11Why go with Sweeney had said all along that they were going to be started corpus hollow

01:16in game one.

01:17And so I just think Montgomery was saying that as like gamesmanship.

01:21I don't think there was ever any thought that Jeremy Swayman would start last night.

01:24He was skating at BU.

01:26Yeah.

01:26But I mean, he hasn't been with practice.

01:28He hasn't been practicing with the team.

01:29He hasn't been with the team.

01:30He hasn't been training.

01:31So like, I think they're working him up.

01:33I'm hoping he'll start tomorrow night at home in the home opener.

01:36But I mean, I guess we'll see at this point.

01:38Yeah.

01:38I mean, you were blaming that entire loss last night on him.

01:41And I majority of you, Jim, what the majority of it?

01:45Not all of it, but see, I disagree with you.

01:48It's they're back to when it comes to the defense on this team to allowing dudes to

01:58hang out in front of the net and to get a rebound.

02:03They're not clearing guys out.

02:05It's the same thing that you've seen for the last couple seasons when it comes to those

02:09guys.

02:10I think that's just the Florida Panthers effect.

02:12Like, I think you'll see.

02:13I think you will look at tomorrow night's game and go, wow, this team looks entirely

02:16different.

02:17And then you'll be the Canadians.

02:19Yeah.

02:19It's just going to be a different game.

02:21And it won't be the first game of the season.

02:24And I think the Bruins will look a lot different.

02:26Well, the concerning thing that I could potentially have, it's not an issue right now, because

02:34I said it's the first game.

02:36But the concerning thing, and he said it, and he's been saying it for a couple of years,

02:41is we look slow.

02:43We started off slow in this game.

02:45They did look slow throughout the whole games.

02:48Because they were going to get a bump from raising the banner.

02:51Like, I, you know.

02:53Right.

02:53But I would think that you would, as the opponent, would want to spoil banner night and would

02:58have the, be able to match their energy.

03:01Oh, hold on a second.

03:02When you're talking about raising the banner, I have to do this.

03:08So freaking annoying.

03:10And so Florida.

03:12And so non-original six.

03:17If I could be a hard-o for a moment.

03:19It's so hokey.

03:20It's so awful.

03:25I don't get the rats.

03:26Panthers are eating.

03:30Oh, God.

03:31Time for the panther to eat.

03:33I don't get the rats.

03:35The kachuk thing.

03:37They're the Florida panthers.

03:39So the rats thing is for kachuk?

03:41Yeah, kachuk is known as the rat king.

03:43Okay.

03:46I just didn't get when they throw rats on the ice.

03:48I was like, what's that for?

03:49Well, New Whalers knows more about hockey than I do.

03:52I'm looking at the Twitch chat.

03:53What do you say?

03:54I mean, I played the game.

03:55I don't know if New Whalers played the game.

03:56Did you play the game, New Whalers?

03:59I actually enjoy talking about hockey.

04:02Between that and the NFL, my two favorite sports.

04:04I don't know what to tell you, New Whalers.

04:06Well, I like talking puck.

04:08Who doesn't?

04:09New Whalers.

04:11You want to come in one morning and regale us with your intricate knowledge of the game?

04:16You're welcome to do so.

04:17But aren't we at the point now where it's like for the diehard Bruins fans,

04:23when is this team going to win another cup?

04:25For people that have become Bruins fans for it seems like the past five to seven, eight years,

04:31they always have a good team.

04:34Isn't the next step similar to how we viewed the Celtics?

04:38When are you going to win that next cup?

04:42When are you going to show that you are now a team that can contend year in and year out

04:49when you have the talent?

04:50And I don't know if it was Courtney, maybe you might have asked this question a while back,

04:54or we had this conversation.

04:57I know it was more around Bergeron and feeling like,

05:01did he underachieve with his career as far as when it comes to winning?

05:05When you start to look at this Bruins team for whatever it is,

05:11the past 15 years or since 2011,

05:15do you feel like this team has underachieved with the talent that they have?

05:20And aren't your expectations like,

05:23what is it going to take for them to get back to that point?

05:27Great question, Wiggs.

05:30I think it's hard when you look at the talent as you've had this nucleus,

05:34the same for so long.

05:36So when are they going to make the jump?

05:38And you could say, well, they used to be constantly in contention

05:42and they've had a drop off since then.

05:44Well, if that's the case, then you've got to kind of restructure the entire thing.

05:50You don't count making the playoffs being in contention?

05:53In the NHL, everybody makes the playoffs.

05:56Yeah.

05:56And then it's about, all right, making the playoffs versus really-

06:01Looking good in the playoffs.

06:02Having a chance to compete for a championship.

06:06Yeah.

06:06All right, you even said it.

06:07You go, I asked you yesterday, I said,

06:09do you think this roster and this team's good enough to contend for a championship?

06:16Well, you said good enough to make it to the final.

06:18Yes.

06:18And I said, no, I don't think it is.

06:20But P.K. Subban would disagree.

06:23He's picking the Bruins to get there.

06:24So I don't know.

06:26I mean, you definitely, like when it comes to being physical,

06:30which they need on the blue line, you theoretically added that with Zdorov.

06:35Like, he should be way more physical.

06:38And he will.

06:38I have my issue with Carlo.

06:40My issue with Carlo goes back a while.

06:43Like, he just is not as physical as he needs to be.

06:48They're not clearing guys out in front of the net.

06:50And you know what they continue to do?

06:52And even the, uh, Zdorov, is that's how you say his name?

06:55Yes.

06:56They continue to be sloppy with the puck.

06:59Turn the puck over like defensemen forwards.

07:03And I don't know what that comes from.

07:04We'd have to ask Milbury, you know, what that comes from.

07:07Is that just a lack of focus?

07:09Do you want the rat origin story from your guy, T.C.?

07:13Please.

07:14I'd love to know where it comes from.

07:15Hey, T.C.

07:17What's up, guys?

07:18So the rats, uh, Scott Melanby back in, um, 96, I want to say, because that was the year

07:23they, uh, Florida went to the finals and got swept by Colorado.

07:27They upset my penguins in game seven of the Eastern Conference finals, but Scott Melanby

07:31killed a rat in the locker room.

07:33And that's, uh, that's kind of how the rats all started.

07:36That started that year.

07:39Like in the locker room, killed a rat.

07:41Yeah, that's how that all started.

07:44T.C.

07:47I didn't know because I was, I was always hunting prey.

07:51I was wondering why they throw rats out on the ice when they're the panthers.

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