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NHL All-Star and legendary enforcer has publicly put two famous icons on blast for Jim Montgomery's firing

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Daniel Lucente
November 21, 2024  (12:16)
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Former Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery walking to the podium
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Enforcer John Scott is arguably most famous for his NHL All-Star game appearance a decade ago, and he has now put two specific Bruins on blast for the firing.

It has been a dramatic week for the Boston Bruins, including the sudden termination of head coach Jim Montgomery.

In the aftermath of that decision, General Manager Don Sweeney made it clear to the team that more changes might be on the way.

Yet, the way many Bruins fans view this, the shake-up should start from the top, on up with Sweeney himself.

Former NHL enforcer John Scott, host of the 'Dropping the Gloves' podcast, is among them, and he took aim at Sweeney and team president Cam Neely on a recent episode.

"Good players ≠ good executives and the mystique around who they are often deflects blame.

[Cam] Neely. [Steve] Yzerman. [Rob] Blake. [Brendan] Shanahan.

If they weren't NHL legends they would have been fired already."

- John Scott


Scott also berated the trend of appointing former players to key management positions, saying that too much leniency is always given to them because of their memory in whatever organization they work for.

He used the Bruins management as examples of why this practice should cease to continue, where performance should outweigh what was done on the ice.

That's not to say Scott doesn't make a valid argument.

Sweeney has been in charge since 2015, and the Bruins have advanced to the Stanley Cup Final just once under his watch, losing to the St. Louis Blues in 2019.

Sweeney, of course, defended the firing of Montgomery by citing team underperformance, saying players weren't meeting expectations.

Yet here's the charge that follows him: Are the Bruins struggling at all, or is this simply a roster not constructed to win? The track record of the GM provides valid reasons for skepticism.

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