from Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe,

Call them complacent. Call them stubborn. Call Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli and coach Claude Julien good hockey guys who have simply been on the job too long.

Most important, call them a cab. Get them gone. Bruins fans need this to be the first day of the rest of their hockey lives.

The calm heads of those who are around the team every day remind us to proceed slowly and carefully. Firing the GM and coach might feel good in the moment, but be careful what you wish for. Be fair. Look at the track record. Who are you going to get that is any better?

Sorry, this is not the time for methodical movements and rational thinking. This is about blaming folks who need to be blamed. The Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011. They pushed the Chicago Blackhawks to a six-game Final two years ago. They won the coveted Presidents’ Trophy with the best regular-season record last year. They had made the playoffs every year since 2008 and advanced to at least the second round in five of the last six seasons. They have a lot of satisfied players who’ve been overpaid and granted too much tenure by Chiarelli.

Heads must roll. Not making the playoffs is simply unacceptable for this crew. And the ghastly manner in which the season ended only underscores the obvious need for change.

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