Breaking: Bruins may have held on to Julien to screw rival NHL team.

The Bruins may have deliberately denied Julien an opportunity.

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Breaking: Bruins may have held on to Julien to screw rival NHL team.
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The Boston Bruins may have held on to head coach Claude Julien longer than they wanted in order to prevent a rival Eastern Conference team from snatching him up.

During an interview on TSN 1200 in Ottawa, ESPN hockey insider Pierre LeBruin stated his belief that the Bruins would have fired Julien at the end of last season, however there was a strong belief within the Bruins organization that he would have been immediately hired by the Ottawa Senators. Instead the Bruins kept him leading the Senators to eventually hire head coach Guy Boucher.

It's shocking to learn that the Bruins respected Julien enough to fear him remaining within the Atlantic Division while also feeling that he wasn't good enough to be the head coach for their club. While the decision is certainly understandable from an organizational standpoint, there will be those who view this as the Bruins robbing Julien of a well-deserved opportunity, something that will only add to the heavy criticism being thrown in the direction of Bruins management today.

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