Bruins’ fans find blunt way to communicate frustration to owner Jeremy Jacobs

On Tuesday, the Boston Bruins fired coach Jim Montgomery after stumbling to a losing record in their first 20 games. The team is now off to an 8-9-3 start (.475 points percentage) and outside of a playoff seed in the Eastern Conference and fans have lost patience as well.

According to Ty Anderson, the Bruins’ sellout streak came to an end on Monday when the team failed to sale 300 seats in the contest against the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets.

Boston went on to lose 5-1, which eventually led to Montgomery’s firing. The sellout sreak had dated back to Dec. 2009.

After the Monday night loss to Columbus, the Bruins were booed off the ice at home after falling behind 3-0 in the first period.

It might not have been from a sellout crowd, but fans made sure to express their frustration.

Now with the attendance numbers taking a hit, everyone believes that owner Jeremy Jacobs will be paying attention to what’s truly happening in Boston and could eventually decide to part ways with general manager Don Sweeney.

Many fans believe Sweeney deserves his share of the blame amidst the Bruins’ terrible start to 2024-25. The team he’s built has flaws and it does not sound like the GM has been looking to fix them, including poor special teams, penalties, bad third periods, etc…

When everyone thought Sweeney would get top-six goal scorer in free agency this summer, he instead gave lucrative deals to center Elias Lindholm (seven-year, $54.25 million) and defenseman Nikita Zadorov ( six-year, $30 million deal) and we have to admit that both contracts look like overpays right now.

Will Jacobs pay attention now that the sellout streak is over and money will be lost? Let’s see what happens next in Boston.