Jim Montgomery
Is Derek Lalonde on the Hot Seat With the Red Wings?
The Detroit Red Wings are in sixth place in the Atlantic division with 22 points. The cutoff for deciding whether a team will make the Stanley Cup playoffs is traditionally American Thanksgiving. If a team is more than four points out of a playoff spot, it will decide to trade players to contending teams. The […]
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Bargain Bin: Panic Alarms Being Set Off? (11/28/2024)
Many of you might’ve guessed it by now, but I’m the Canadian half of the Canada-USA duo comprising the two hosts for the Inside The Rink podcast. Jayd is a credentialed media person for the Seattle Kraken while I’m a credentialed media person for the Manitoba Moose. Given that it’s American Thanksgiving this week, Jayd […]
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Opinion: There Will Be No Penguins Playoffs This Year; That’s on Purpose
As of writing, the Pittsburgh Penguins are the third-worst team in the NHL in terms of points percentage. They have the worst goal differential in the league. Pittsburgh is dead-last in the Metro having played the most games (tied with New Jersey). The team has visibly stopped responding to their coach, has failed at executing […]
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Bargain Bin: The Chase for Gretzky is on Halt (11/25/2024)
The last episode Jayd and I recorded of the Inside The Rink podcast went up Saturday. Since we hit the quarter mark of the 2024-25 NHL season, teams are ready to blow up their entire team or make a franchise-altering move given their performance in the standings up until now. I’m touching on some points […]
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Slumping Rangers Drafting Behind New York’s NFL Disasters
When your team expectations include exactly one objective: winning the Stanley Cup, it is never a good time for a slump. When your team is the New York Rangers, located in the heart of the U.S. media capital, the adage rings especially true. Yet the Rangers, who are, make no mistake, slumping, are managing to […]
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Former Boston Bruins Coach Gets New Coaching Job Five Days Later
Former Boston Bruins Head Coach Jim Montgomery was fired by the Boston Bruins on Tuesday after leading the Bruins to a disappointing 8-9-3 start to the season. Just five days later, Montgomery is going back to a familiar place. The St. Louis Blues announced the firing of Head Coach Drew Bannister Sunday and have replaced […]
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Boston Bruins Fire Head Coach Jim Montgomery
The Boston Bruins announced on Tuesday the firing of Head Coach Jim Montgomery. Montgomery was in the last year of a three-year contract. Assistant Coach Joe Sacco will take over interim duties as head coach as the Bruins prepare for their next game Thursday night against Utah at TD Garden. Montgomery led Boston to an […]
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Bargain Bin: Trade Market Getting Hotter? (11/18/24)
It’s been almost a week since Jayd and I recorded the last Inside The Rink podcast, and with our consistently inconsistent recording date approaching, there have been some thoughts that we have talked about and others we haven’t talked about that I’ve wanted to touch on. Binnington’s Future with the Blues Uncertain Jim Parsons of […]
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How Much of the Boston Bruins’ Woes Are Jim Montgomery’s Responsibility?
The Boston Bruins have a flawed roster. General Manager Don Sweeney even admitted that before the 2024-25 season began by saying that the team was short a winger. After 18 games, the team might be shorter than that, honestly. Boston has issues offensively, defensively, and in special teams play. Other than that, everything is fine. […]
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Opinion: Old Demons Haunting the Boston Bruins
We’re only 14 games into the 2024-25 Boston Bruins season, and as of November 6th, they sit just a point off Tampa Bay for third in their division. But one can’t help but feel this iteration of the Bruins more closely resembles the 2014-15/2015-16 version rather than the world-beaters of years past. A brief retrospective: […]
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