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Hey, we're Tudcher and Rich.

The Bruins fired Cassidy yesterday.

Don Sweeney's behind the mic.

We'll run this live thanks to Nesson for as long as we feel appropriate.

I'm off the ice for the Boston Bruins, the organization.

And, again, a really tough day overall, but I had to make a decision that I felt in the best interest of where our team is at now moving forward.

And I'd be happy to answer your questions.

I guess why now what about where the team is now?

Did you feel like this was the right time to do?

The timing after, you know, taking a few weeks to unpack, a lot of things happened over the course of the year

and where I thought the direction of our team was currently.

And equally, you know, with some of the surgeries and some of the things coming out, where our team was going to be going forward.

And in fact, our club, I just felt that the messaging and the voice that was going to be required. I felt we needed a new

direction. And, you know, we had, I had met with the coaching staff like I normally do to go over,

you know, not only a year and their feeling of where our team was, what we were capable of achieving.

And then I met with Bruce afterwards as well, talking about his staff.

At that point in time, we had made a decision.

He had made a decision that Kevin Dean wasn't going to be extended.

We had talks during the course of the year about he and Kevin in their

relationship and, you know, everybody was aware that there was a little friction there at some

point in time. They got past that and went back to work as both of them as professionals and

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