Montgomery is gonna be the fall guy just like Claude and Cassidy in the recent past, but if they lose tonight then they should be looking at simply the players, particularly the core group that's been here for a while (Pasta, McAvoy, Coyle, Marchand, etc.). It's literally the same story with this team over the past decade. "Lack of secondary scoring", "can't finish out series", "blown leads", "lack of toughness" at some point it's got to all be on the players.
Would be nice if Pasta actually woke up, same with Coyle, McAvoy and Zacha. Most of them have just disappeared for yet another postseason. Same story. Getting tired of it.
If they lose tonight I'd prefer to just move on from as many guys as we can and just rebuild. We also need to accept that McAvoy is a good player, not *great/elite*. That's all he is.
B's could have 28M in cap space this offseason which is nice but I'd still prefer to just start afresh and with a new, younger core if possible.