The heated exchange between team captain Brad Marchand and head coach Jim Montgomery was shown live by the TV broadcast of the Bruins game against the Utah Hockey Club on Saturday. It led to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman's speculation about a possible "breakdown" inside the Bruins locker room.

Johnson, who is with the Bruins on a professional tryout agreement was at practice, but he’s not eligible to play in a game unless he signs a NHL deal. The fact that it was Max Jones and not Johnson filling in for Marchand alongside Charlie Coye on the second line is a likely indication that signing Johnson was not imminent.

A n exchange between Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery and captain Brad Marchand has raised eyebrows, potentially signaling deeper tensions between the two and hints that th

The tension between Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery and captain Brad Marchand became a hot topic on Sunday following the team's 2-1 overtime loss to the new Utah Hockey Club. The defeat has left Boston looking at a 3-2-1 record through their first six games of the season but fans and hockey insiders are more worried about what happened on the bench than what's going on inside the rink.