Jim Montgomery was fired by the Bruins on Tuesday. Joe Sacco alone can't right the ship amid an underachieving roster.

No one should be surprised. Montgomery, following two brilliant regular seasons as bench boss, including a record-setting run of 65-12-5 in his first year, clearly couldn’t come up with an answer to shake the club out of an 8-9-3 death march.

There was plenty of blame to go around for the Boston Bruins' bad start, but coach Jim Montgomery deserved the opportunity to be part of the solution, says .