Montgomery out, Sacco in. Was it the right move for the Bruins?

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Montgomery out, Sacco in. Was it the right move for the Bruins? Was it the only move they could make?

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00:00I got to get to the great Maria from Watertown and her thoughts on the Bruins this morning. Hello Maria

00:08Good morning. Hey, I don't Greg you've mentioned in the past that Don Sweeney sometimes listens to this show

00:15He used to I don't I don't know if he still does or not, but he used to yes

00:19All right. Well, let's see. Maybe you can send him the tape because these are the questions

00:23I want to ask him. Is it Jim Montgomery's fault that David Pasternak had zero shots on goal in the game against Columbus the other night?

00:31Is it Jim Montgomery's fault that Nikita Zadorov the stiff that he is?

00:38Doesn't know the difference between when he's playing a shift with a man up or a man down

00:43Is it Jim Montgomery's fault that every time Pavel Zakha seems to get the stick on his puck?

00:48He shoots high or wide this this is

00:52Typical weasel

00:54Boston Bruins behavior on the part of

00:58Management, they set Jim Montgomery up to fail from the very beginning because mr

01:05Sweeney if you had faith in the roster that you had constructed for this season

01:11You would have extended Jim Montgomery either in the offseason or when the season started

01:18But no, what do you do in an effort to save your own skins you and your BFF?

01:25Cam Neely you let this guy hang in the wind because you must have suspected that this roster

01:32Wasn't at the standard to which you thought you had built it now where they're coaching mistakes likely

01:39Yes, you can't be at the bottom of all NHL statistics and not accept some of the responsibility

01:47As a coach, but what I'm saying to management and players right now

01:52You all have a target on your back. You all better have a cup of shut the you-know-what up and start

02:01playing hockey because now

02:03This group of players a lot of them the same group of core players

02:08Have cost three very good winning coaches their job and there's nothing that I can't

02:16stand

02:17any more than

02:20management and ownership

02:22Capitulating to players who are played paid

02:26Extremely well to do a job do your jobs. Shut up and play

02:32Maria, I think you make a brilliant

02:35Argument and great call. My only question would be

02:40Don't you now know who all these players are?

02:43Like they're people when the going gets tough they point the finger

02:46So in what way like in my mind you just need to gut the whole thing and restart like

02:50Martian pasta all these guys like they're clearly not people that take accountability. They're just not

02:57It's so disappointing because that's not what I that's not what I maybe I had a twisted view

03:03what the culture of this team was did the fact that they are not able to

03:10Handle any kind of adversity or criticism. You're right Curtis

03:15This is not the DNA that I want for my hockey team or you know

03:19Even worse an original six hockey team. What what are we doing here?

03:24Maria great call as always cuz you gotta ask is it what changed from?

03:31What was it two years ago where they were the best team in the regular season?

03:36What a lot, you know the majority of the roster being the same roster from them then to now what changed

03:44Oh, you lost Patrice Bergeron

03:47Okay, is is that enough of it? Like is that a significant change where you just your team falls off the cliff?

03:52Well, you want a tree Bergeron who got your coach fired that won a cup with the Vegas Knights, right?

03:57So I mean, it's not I mean, it's the facts. I mean, yes, but I'm agree with you Curtis

04:01I heard it's you're spot-on like I

04:03I've defended Patrice Bergeron on this show a lot

04:08I've defended Brad Marchand. I think

04:13that you got to look at those guys and

04:16You're spot-on when you say they don't want to put any of this on themselves

04:21They always want to blame it on somebody else and at the core of your beef with the Patriots and Mayo and all of that

04:28Yeah, I think you are right that the players that got Belichick fired are in the same boat

04:35Yeah, like I'm not saying they'd be much different. Maybe they'd win a game or two. That's not the point

04:39It's that if you're continually trying to change those around you instead of changing yourself

04:45You're never going to be successful and that's what I feel like the Bruins have fallen into where it's like

04:50Well, I know Sweeney's sackless. He'll just fire the coach and rub my back and

04:56That's what it's been for basically a decade they put themselves in a horrible position though

05:00If they need to do what you're talking about and blow it all up

05:04Like there's really no talent in the system whatsoever. It is talent none

05:11But there is a talented piece out there

05:13Oh, well, maybe even two you mean talent that you can go get for David post or not that yeah

05:19And my but but you do you you have no talent in the system. Mm-hmm. You don't have any money

05:26And the core of the players on this team don't seem to be the ones

05:31Who who really want to show up and win it? I you know, you bring up David Poster knock

05:37unbelievably skilled player

05:39but

05:41It's like you don't think somebody else would done him that does he can't it doesn't show up in the playoffs

05:46Yeah, somebody else will probably want him. Yeah, so but that's just today Charlie McAvoy like Charlie McAvoy is just

05:54Not he's not a I don't I don't know that he's a guy you can build your your hockey team around

06:00He's been less than satisfying and Brad Marchand. I'm gonna give my talk. We talked about it yesterday

06:07I'm gonna give him something when it comes to how long he's been in the league how old he is

06:10But this is probably it too for him

06:13I like the how this season is unfolding and now the firing of Montgomery like I think that he calls it a career

06:19I don't think so

06:20I think he's more I think he's opposite of Bergie where he wouldn't mind going play for somebody else to contending

06:27He already said I kind of lightweight said, you know

06:30They asked about his contract and he kind of didn't be like, all right, this is it

06:34He was like, you know, we'll talk when we get to that point about you know, potentially doing an extension

06:39But that's why I asked yesterday when you look at this core

06:43through especially through the middle

06:45Your forward being pasta your defense being McAvoy and your goalie being Swayman is this core

06:52Those guys the ones you want to build around or are you at the point where it is like?

06:57Nuclear and you have to blow it up and you're saying okay. What can we get for a guy like pasta?

07:02What can we get for a guy like Marchand? What can we get for a guy like the McAvoy there?

07:08there's just

07:10you would think Marchand would be it but there's not a

07:14Veteran like a legit veteran presence

07:18Around that locker room to get guys in line like and and you think about a guy like 40 who obviously wasn't

07:24Talented like these guys, but that's what he did, right?

07:27And those guys would tell you over and over it takes a lot for somebody like Sean Thornton

07:31Who is not a goal scorer to be able to hold guys accountable. He held guys accountable

07:37I think you're gonna laugh at me, but Don Sweeney, I think when you look at the mistakes he made

07:42Not

07:43Resigning Pat Maroon for pennies. Like I think Chicago's paying him

07:511.3 million dollars is a mistake

07:54Like why not give the guy a flyer like he came here hurt last season and gave you a little bit

07:59Like or or or names anybody else like somebody in there

08:04Who's gonna be in that locker room and tell those guys that this is not the way the big bad

08:09Boston Bruins have been but they're not the big bad Boston Bruins. There's a big bitchy Bruins. Yeah, that's a good one

08:16They're completely a whole new the players are new

08:19Their mindsets are new

08:21It's like when we talk about Ty and I we talk about how Willie police the the the locker room like those guys don't exist

08:27a lot of them don't exist no more in this day and age people respected Sean Thornton because

08:32There were other players in that locker room whether it was Big Z whether it was crazy

08:38Bergeron, you know, there's so many guys you could think about we're like, okay

08:42We respect with Sean Thornton Thornton saying so then the younger players looked up to him

08:48Now, do you think these guys would respect the guy like Thornton or they're like listen?

08:52I think they all respected Bergeron and everything we heard

08:56Bergeron is like Greg is saying it's a completely different animal. He kept them all in line

09:03No, but Montgomery used to say that he didn't even have to coach because Bergeron kept them all in line

09:07Now he just more like I think he was saying that more like his knowledge of the game or whatever I I don't know

09:14I'm not scary like a Sean Thornton. Like I get that but didn't he get didn't he get Cassidy fired?

09:20Yes, so isn't he more like the new generation than he would the old generation and and Greg and this is from flutist

09:27who's our yesterday and I think it was the biggest reporting because what Sweeney did and has done is

09:33Accumulate talent instead of building a team and if the roster so

09:38Pluto shins out when the Athletics said what's done is done

09:41Swayman's priority is to find his confidence clean up his game and prove to his teammates that he was right to play hardball if

09:48Swayman continues to take backward steps. He will not have many friends left in the dressing room

09:53So if these guys were really pissed that Swayman was going for the last dollar

09:59Like what is the calculus in there who cares you've already got your contract

10:04yeah, that's like if you're that pathetic that you don't want your team to have the best goalie possible and

10:11Swayman who is

10:12Negotiating and setting a market that other NHL players will benefit from his own teammates are mad

10:19Yeah, that's the brotherhood. You never go against the brotherhood when it comes to money. This is Aaron Andrew from Connecticut. Hello, Andrew

10:27How's it going, I'm just answering what you question like what changed between the good season and now

10:34That playoff series what changed they blew a 3-0 lead to, Florida

10:38I was calling for a gap or throwing that that season away. Everyone should have been fired because where do you go from there?

10:45Hmm, so like John Sweeney

10:49He should have been let go a long time ago

10:51I just I'm a big Bruins fan and I hate the culture because when you look at the numbers

10:57The one and done stuff that you know getting kicked out of the playoffs

11:02It's I just feel bad when you look at Montgomery's record. No one who has won that much should be fired

11:08well, there were there were some people who wanted Don Sweeney fired after the

11:132015 draft so

11:19So, I mean that conversation has been ongoing in some circles

11:23But he's always been able to slide, you know, and nearly I mean, I guess nearly slides because of his performance and then you know

11:31Nelly's more like ah, you know what? We got some new meatballs. We're putting on the menu. He's the menu guy

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