You had a good run however, I suppose it had to end. After nine and a half years of support, Claude Julien was fired as head coach of the Boston Bruins and rumors are starting to swirl as to who can replace the Stanley Cup-winning coach.
It is clear the Bruins‘ management wasn’t delighted with the way the club was heading in, with only 58 points after 55 games, but what’s not too clear is exactly what they expected. Almost everybody predicted the B’s are a group to the outside looking in and it seemed all but certain that Julien would be relieved of his post in the finish of the season. The impatience of the new NHL, but reared its ugly head once again and one of the greatest coaches in the league is now searching for work — that I’m sure he’ll find in short order. The timing could not have been better for the Bruins since it was unlikely they would confront much backlash from the public and the press together with the Patriots observing their most recent Super Bowl win having a parade in downtown Boston in precisely the exact same time the Bruins announced the shooting.
BetOnline has set lines who will end up the upcoming full-time trainer of the Original Six team from Massachusetts and there are some recognizable names near the top of the list. With former Panthers bench boss Gerard Gallant coming in at +200 and the very recently fired Ken Hitchcock being offered at +400.
Assistant coach Bruce Cassidy will take over head coaching duties in the meantime and he is the current favorite to take over the full-time job with +160 chances. Before he was promoted to the club at the beginning of the 2016-17 season, Cassidy served as the head coach of the Bruins‘ AHL affiliate in Providence for five years. It’s likely that Bruins‘ direction has been dressing the Ottawa, Ontario native for the significant job so that it makes a great deal of sense he’s the favorite.
With teams like the Penguins, Blues, Panthers and the Islanders all using this method using their recent full-time head coach hirings, I really could observe the Bruins doing the identical thing. I am unsure what it takes to maintain a job as a head coach in the NHL anymore however if Claude Julien doesn’t have it, nobody does.
Here’s the Whole list of potential full-time head coaches for the Bruins Given at BetOnline:
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