from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,

If the Lords of the Boards really want to increase NHL scoring — and I have my doubts after the last couple of decades — it’s time to turn their attention away from the ice and focus on what’s going on behind their 31 benches night after night.

Fellas, please, clear the decks back there and give the game back to the players — and in turn, to the fans.

It’s a congested, overstaffed, overcoached menagerie, with many teams, the Bruins among them, parking a head coach and three assistants behind the bench each game. Not to mention yet another coach stationed in the press box, relaying his eye-in-the-sky observations directly to the bench via radio hookup.

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