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Lewis Fired
by Paul on 06/15/07 at 06:17 PM ET
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vai the Boston Bruins,
Boston Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced today that the club has relieved Head Coach Dave Lewis and Associate Coach Marc Habscheid of their coaching duties, and will reassign them to other positions within the club.
“Since the season has ended I have completed a thorough review of the team and the coaching staff, and I have determined that Dave Lewis and Marc Habscheid are not the proper fit for the Bruins at this time,” said Chiarelli. “I have a short list of candidates in mind, and I hope to have a new Head Coach in place in the near future.
“I want to thank Dave and Marc for their hard work and dedication this past year, and I am certain that they will have success in their future endeavors.”
added 10:34pm, from BostonBruins.com,
The GM had started the phone call by saying that he had “great respect for both of those men and for what they have done in the past and what they will accomplish in the future, however my job is to ice a team that is going to win on a consistent basis.
“One of the things that was telling to me this year was the inconsistency of our play.
“We would go for long stretches where we would be either very good or not so good and what tells me as a manager is that there is a level of play that we can attain…and it didn’t happen.
“In fairness to Dave and to Marc we put together a staff under somewhat extenuating circumstances. And I interviewed them both. They were both good.”
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File this under headlines like “Sun Rises in East” and “Dog Bites Man”.
Y’know, you can almost set your watch by the frequency of the Bruins coaching changes. How many is that since 1979 when they fired Don Cherry? They must average a coach every 1.5 seasons.
OK, just checked, since 1979, they’ve had 17 coaching changes, averaging nearly a coaching change per season.
Posted by Spector from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada on 06/15/07 at 09:34 PM ET
Is it just me or does it seem like almost nobody just plain “gets fired” anymore, they instead keep them in the organization in some other fashion…
Posted by The Forechecker from Nashville on 06/15/07 at 10:41 PM ET
Doesn’t seem very fair. Lewis had only a season to make something out of nothing and it doesn’t happen he gets fired. It takes time to build a team and by changing a coach every season becasue it doesn’t go exactly as you planned it, it’s just going to take longer.
Posted by Josh on 06/16/07 at 05:32 AM ET
Well, if they are looking for the opposite style of coach as so many team do, Mike Keenan is already taken.
I haven’t seen too much of Boston, but the team seems to have a lot of holes, and don’t they have about five goaltenders they are considering for the starting role? I hope whoever they hire, he has more than a year to build a team out of that goulash of hockey players.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 06/16/07 at 06:16 AM ET
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Not a surprise in the least.
Goof luck to both… sure would like to see Habscheid get a head coaching job in the league someday.
Posted by PuckHound61 on 06/15/07 at 05:35 PM ET