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and sherp one Jim Montgomery hired by
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the St Louis Blues but did he have this
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Blues job in the bag before getting
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fired by the Bruins when asked about it
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Jim Montgomery had no real comment on
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the timeline of these what happened with
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the Blues in his first press conference
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with Blues media Montgomery says he
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doesn't want to get into the particulars
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of when blues GM Doug Armstrong first
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reached out to him about coming to St
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Louis so and then here was what
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Armstrong had to say about the hiring of
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Jim Montgomery when I talked to Drew
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today I I told him that uh again this
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was this was more of a decision based on
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the availability of someone I think is a
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top NHL coach uh someone that we have
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experience with someone uh Lou that I
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really do believe you know can can coach
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this team and also coach the team when
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it reaches its ultimate level of of of
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uh he's done that he's worked with
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younger players in the USHL and in
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college good success in Dallas good
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success in Boston uh so he he's a he's
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one of those coaches that I really do
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believe can can be with with this team
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now and and that as it grows and I think
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the the proof of that is is the the
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fiveyear commitment and what uh you know
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one of the things I think is is the next
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part for for Jim's career is to to get
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that long ity in one spot and I talk you
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know I look at someone like John Cooper
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now uh he's the the standard bearer of
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what what everyone wants to be a
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competitive coach year in year out deals
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with different players uh you know deals
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that with players coming and going and
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finds a way to stay competitive and that
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that's Jim's next goal is to to stay in
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St Louis and I hoping it's for well over
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a decade and but we're going to start
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tomorrow yeah I I'm not a big conspiracy
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theory guy but this just kind of reeks
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kind of smells of and and and we talked
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about we talked about it from the get-go
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about Jim mcg's body language and the
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and the fact that it just didn't seem
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like he was totally 100% into the thing
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like he was kind of giving up he even
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said like I don't have answers all that
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stuff and it all kind of makes sense now
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and I'm I'm trying not to be conspiracy
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guy but I you can't tell me that he
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didn't know this opportunity was coming
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oh he knew it was coming there was like
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if that doesn't scream tampering oh my
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God I don't know what does because why
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would you not want to get into the
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timeline of it unless the timeline was
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before you were fired right that's the
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only reason why you wouldn't get into
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timeline it's because it happened while
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you still had a job with the Boston
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Bruins with your hands in your pockets
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playing with your [ __ ] balls sorry
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John yeah that's why yeah that's why you
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didn't want to get into it because you
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and that's why your body language sucked
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is because you were dreaming of putting
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your [ __ ] blue sweatshirt back on
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yeah yeah and this is what happened so I
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mean all the people screaming about oh
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Montgomery whatever yeah he you know it
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wasn't his fault it certainly was his
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fault and we said this for another
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goddamn team it sure was his fault I
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feel like we're the we're some of the
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only people and I and I you know I'm not
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going to get into like you know we know
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everything but I'm telling you I feel
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like we're one of the only people who's
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who who saw this and who knew that this
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was the case like this was this is why
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it's almost as much Montgomery's fault
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as anybody else because he gave up on
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the team and the organization he said
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and now look he may have the right
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reasons for it like they may have just
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sort of gone in a different direction
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and he's standing there with the schm in
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his hand and saying I can't coach these
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guys I don't coach this style fine fine
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basically set yourself up to get fired
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so you can take a five-year contract
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five days later you know with a team
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that you have a history with it just is
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not that's not okay now the only thing I
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can think of in this is that the Bruins
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kind of knew this was happening like the
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Bruins were in on it too that's all I
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can think of is that because they're not
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making a big stink about it I'm almost
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thinking like okay Jim go find go find
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your gig set yourself up and then we'll
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let you go go that's all I can think of
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or this would be more of a story more of
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a you know they would make more of a
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stink about it I don't know I don't know
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if they would I I just feel like people
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don't really file the tampering charges
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yeah everybody's like everybody else's
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best friend right like nobody signs
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anybody to offer sheets even though you
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can and that's an Avenue that people
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should like they've been like what four
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offer sheets signed in the last 20 years
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yeah no there's no ruffling of the
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feathers because you want to get it in
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return no no everybody's like best
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friends with everybody else and I'm sure
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tampering happens all the time behind
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the scenes sure but it was just
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Montgomery's body language and frankly
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unprofessionalism sure that that you
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know really stuck out to me towards the
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end there yeah because he just he didn't
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handle it the right way like no he
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didn't why didn't you just say you know
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I I resign I resign I don't want a job
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anymore or or you know still try to
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still try to actually coach and then you
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know I don't know I I just feel like he
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could have handled it
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differently um because it's a bad look
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it's a bad look on him if if if he
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behaved that way trying to force his way
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out of town it's yeah it it just it we
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we I mean we said this we we smelled
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this like he he just looked like he was
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a defeated guy that kind of just gave up
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like it it all looked like that and I
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just can't believe someone can do that I
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mean he it just looked like he did like
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he gave up on the whole situation he
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knew he didn't want to sign he was
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turning on down the offers now it's been
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reported by Ty Anderson and others that
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it was a three-year offer from the
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Bruins okay fine but that's probably
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from the Bruins like a we don't know
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what you can do here which I don't blame
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the Bruins for going three years and not
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going five like I don't blame the Bruins
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because he's he's he blew a a first
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round series with a with a wagon of a
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team and then lost the next year and
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then this SE this year's team stocks out
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of the gate really slow so I don't blame
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them I can't believe they gave him an
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offer to be honest with you like I I am
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stunned that they gave him an offer
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because it just didn't seem like they
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were ready to move on with him yeah
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producer Conor brings up a good point
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Sweeney and Armstrong are Co gming or or
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gming together the 2026 uh Olympic team
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telling you telling you that do you mean
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to tell me that's not brought
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up I mean I mean it's probably brought
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up it's not brought up it's probably
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like he how how's the team doing it's
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doing kind of shitty we don't know if
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we're going to move on with uh
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Montgomery well we'll take him you know
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just fire him and we'll sign him you
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know in a week okay like to me I I think
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that that's definitely I think that
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Sweeney knew this was all I I think the
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Bruins knew this whole thing now I don't
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understand why they waited 20 games and
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almost sacrificed a season like for it
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and put their team in like does why did
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the team respond the way they did
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because they they probably knew
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something was up like they they kind of
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gave up and weren't giving Max effort
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and really down and confidence really
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low because you can sense your coach is
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not invested like so all that plays a
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factor why would you do that if you're
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the Bruins why would you why would you
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risk like losing a season over [ __ ]
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around with that why would you do that I
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don't I I mean I've said I said I've
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said it all along that I thought you
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know going into the season it should
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have either been extension or fired or
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you know let go whatever like right
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extend like extend him or don't bring
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him back like it if if you were that
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worried about it that concerned about it
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if you weren't going to come up with you
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know a contract that both sides wanted
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you know if Montgomery saying five years
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I mean who knows when the blues reached
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out to him maybe the blues reached out
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to him in the off season I mean I don't
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know maybe maybe but I don't know um it
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I feel like it should have been
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something that that happened already and
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the fact that the Bruins waited this
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long and let it get to the point that it
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got to um you know I I I didn't love
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that and I don't I don't really love the
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um the way the the way that it all went
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um producer Connor says came out this
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week that Monty was offered multiple
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contracts and he declined them all um
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which then led to his firing I mean I I
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don't know I don't think I don't know if
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that's true like I don't know what's
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going on like I don't know if that's
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true I don't I don't know if if
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Montgomery is kind of this is the way
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out like well you know Montgomery saying
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okay you guys can say you offer me
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contracts and I decline if you just let
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me you know sign my deal with the blues
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and and let me out of it like maybe it's
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all like a just a one big inside job
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like maybe it's just all just Hoots it
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could be it could be like you know we'll
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let you go if you know we can save face
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by saying we offered you deals and you
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can right said no and it makes it look
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like you're gone which you you want to
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leave and then you go to St Louis and
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it's all done like maybe that's it maybe
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that's why there's no bad B there's
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really been no bad mouthing too because
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usually when someone leaves like the
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Bruins plant some stuff oh yeah you know
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on the way out there's been none of that
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so I'm I'm thinking that they just came
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to an agreement and said okay you know
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you want to go to the blues fine we're
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gonna say we offered you XYZ you turned
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it down okay and Jim said fine so I'm
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thinking that's might might have been
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what happened in the in the grand scheme
