Concerning stat has surfaced that may put Montgomery's job on the line

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Joshua Deeds
October 24, 2024 (9:25)

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The Boston Bruins 2024-2025 season has been unique, in the way it's been a slow start. The team is currently on pace for a record, no one would want in the NHL.

The team's accumulating penalties like it's going out of style, as the team is on pace to take 500! Five hundred penalties this season which would set a record not seen for the team since the 2001-2002 season.

The team has been unable to win games regularly, but they average 6.06 penalties a game, not seen since the 2010 Bruins squad.

That Bruins team in 2001-2002 would make it to the playoffs but be pushed out of the first round by the rival Montreal Canadiens club.

Interestingly enough, with that amount of penalties taken the Bruins under Robbie Ftorek, had one of the best penalty kills in the league with an 87.1%.

The Bruins finished the regular season with the highest penalty-kill percentage, at 87.11%.[3]

That doesn't change the fact they were undisciplined during regulation play!

The Bruins penalty kill this season: is 10th in the league, with an 82.9%, which means the team isn't as efficient at the penalty kill compared to the next 9 teams on the list via StatMuse.

The team has been playing an undisciplined game which led to the shutout by the Nashville Predators.

That trend continued into Tuesday as the Bruins committed seven minor penalties - including Charlie McAvoy's double-minor for high-sticking - resulting in 17 penalty minutes.

«That's too much,» Zadorov told reporters. «You can't win hockey games playing that way.»

At least in Zadorov's case, he prevented Alexandre Carrier from notching a secondary scoring bid in the attacking end after tripping the Preds forward near the goal line. Still, Zadorov's latest penalty came shortly after the Bruins had slowly found their rhythm following a flat performance in the opening 20 minutes.

«I've got seven in a row,» Zadorov told the media about his early-season penalty habits. «It's on me. Obviously, I've got to be better. Sometimes they happen [when] I try to save a play, or I try to make a hard play or turn [the puck] overyou don't want the puck to go into your net, you want to prevent it, and [sometimes] you have to take a penalty. Unfortunately, that's what happened today for me, at least.»

Obviously, Montgomery is losing the room, or is in the process of losing it entirely as penalty troubles have continued.

This paired with a lack of reliable scoring could spell the end for Montgomery's tenure in Boston.