Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Bruins pick Julien

Another Tuesday, still no questions. Oh well...more big news. The Bruins have hired Claude Julien as their new head coach only a few days after firing Dave Lewis. Although the club has not yet made an official announcement, every hockey site from San Antonio to Saskatoon has reported the news. To the suprise of no one, the Fourth Period, Canada's premier rumor site was the first to break the news. Along with most others in Bruinsland, I'm not sure what to make of the hire. I've seen comments that ranged from "Julien will win the Jack Adams award this season" to "Chiarelli just wrote his own pink slip with this hire." We'll ust have to wait and see come training camp.

NOTE: Fairly big move yesterday when Nashville sent Kimmo Timonen and Scott Hartnell to the Flyers and regained the first round pick they had traded for Peter Forsberg. Although first round picks are nice, Nashville is falling into a pattern that looks dangerously like that in Beantown. We may see another team north of the border sooner than you'd think.

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