No team has won more games or collected more points than the Boston Bruins since the day they hired Jim Montgomery as their head coach.
And yet the national championship-winning coach at the University of Denver is no longer employed by the Bruins after being fired Tuesday. If we’re curating a collection of the biggest disappointments from the first quarter of the 2024-25 NHL season, the Bruins, and the dismissal of Montgomery, are an easy choice to top the list.
One thing that shouldn’t be a surprise in the NHL is the general level of inertia.