Even for a goalie who’d been struggling a bit, getting yanked, 6:14 into the second period is fast after allowing just two goals.
But that’s what Bruins coach Jim Montgomery did when he pulled goalie Jeremy Swayman early in the middle frame with Boston trailing, 2-0. Swayman had 17 saves at that point. Montgomery said he was hoping to spark his team.
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It didn’t work as Boston fell 5-2.
“I just thought we had no life. I wanted to see a little bit of change,” Montgomery said on NESN. “That was the reasoning behind it.”
He expanded on that in the press conference afterward.
“It was just a decision I made to try to slow the game down and let the entire team know we need to pick it up, we need to go north,” he said. “(Swayman) asked me ‘Why?’ I said, ‘We’ll discuss it tomorrow.’”
The Bruins have given up 19 goals in the past three games, but Montgomery said it would be a mistake to point fingers at Swayman or Ullmark.
“I don’t pin it on the goalies,” he said. “I pin it on the lack of cohesion in front of the goalies.”
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