Well, you had a fantastic run however, I guess it had to end. After nine and a half years of support, Claude Julien has been fired as head coach of the Boston Bruins and rumors are starting to swirl as to who will replace the Stanley Cup-winning coach.
It is apparent the Bruins‘ management was not delighted with the way the club was heading in, with just 58 points after 55 matches, but what’s not very clear is precisely what they anticipated. Almost everyone predicted that the B’s are a team to the outside looking in and it seemed all but certain Julien will be relieved of his post at the conclusion of the season. The impatience of the new NHL, however, reared its ugly head once more and one of the greatest coaches in the league is now looking for work — which I’m sure he’ll see in short order. The timing couldn’t have been better for the Bruins as it was unlikely they’d confront much backlash from the public and the press with the Patriots celebrating their most recent Super Bowl win with a parade in downtown Boston at precisely the exact same time the Bruins declared the shooting.
BetOnline has put lines on who will end up the upcoming full-time trainer of the First Six team from Massachusetts and there are a number of recognizable names close to the top of the listing. With former Panthers seat boss Gerard Gallant coming in at +200 and the very recently fired Ken Hitchcock being available in +400.
Assistant coach Bruce Cassidy will take over head coaching duties in the interim and he is the current favorite to take over the fulltime occupation with +160 odds. Before he had been promoted to the club at the beginning of the 2016-17 year, Cassidy served as the head coach of the Bruins‘ AHL affiliate in Providence for five years. It is very likely that Bruins‘ direction has been dressing the Ottawa, Ontario native for the significant job so that it makes a lot of sense that he’s the favorite.
With teams like the Penguins, Blues, Panthers and the Islanders all employing this method with their recent full-time head coach hirings, I could see the Bruins doing the same thing. I’m unsure what it takes to keep a job as a head coach in the NHL anymore however if Claude Julien doesn’t have it, nobody will.
Here is the Whole list of potential full-time head coaches for the Bruins Given at BetOnline:
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