Bruins Head Coach
The boston bruins are sending their best wishes to former head coach claude julien who will miss the rest of montreal s first round series against philadelphia after being taken to a toronto.
Bruins head coach. Covid 19 s reality hit home for the bruins this week as head coach jason sport tested positive for the virus. The franchise was founded in 1924 and entered the nhl as the first american based expansion team playing its initial seasons at the still active boston arena. Bruins head coach bruce cassidy s game 3 lineup tweaks did not work out. The 60 year old coach is not expected to be back behind the bench for the rest of the team s first round series against philadelphia.
The boston bruins a professional ice hockey team based in boston massachusetts has had 27 head coaches in its team history. They had a 4 1 lead 8 35 into the period and it was their fourth goal that resulted in bruins head coach bruce cassidy making a change in net. File in this jan. But not every tweak made by cassidy was by design.
In his first full year as bruins head coach he led the team to a 50 20 12 regular season record collecting 112 points and securing the second seed in the atlantic division. A night after expressing his frustrations over the officiating in his team s 7 1 loss to the tampa bay lightning in game 3 of the eastern conference semifinals boston bruins head coach bruce cassidy wasn t biting when given a chance to pile it on as lightning head coach jon cooper did earlier in the series. Jaroslav halak was pulled after making 12 saves on 16 shots and he was replaced by rookie dan vladar who made his nhl debut. Montreal canadiens head coach claude julien who was boston.
This week was the first time in 20 years of coaching that sport missed a day of work. In fact they played a factor in what was the black and gold s worst playoff loss in over 28 years. On february 7 2017 he was named interim head coach after head coach claude julien was fired and on april 26 the bruins named him the new head coach.