Bruins under fire over handling of Claude Julien.

ESPN hockey insider Pierre Lebrun called the Bruins to task in his Friday column over their handling of Claude Julien. Here's what Lebrun had to say in his column:

It’s been six weeks and counting, and the veteran head coach is still twisting in the wind. And if he does end up fired, most of the other jobs are gobbled now. I agreed with the Bruins' original decision after Peter Chiarelli was fired to wait until a new general manager was hired to decide Julien’s fate. That makes sense to me. And certainly had a new GM been hired from the outside, you would understand that he would need some time to get to know Julien before making a decision. But the fact that the GM was an in-house promotion -- and I think Don Sweeneyis going to be a very good GM -- what's the wait now? What does Sweeney not know about Julien now that he didn’t know for the past eight years Julien has been behind the Bruins' bench? I mean, it’s getting to the point where it’s almost unfair. Make a decision, fire him or keep him, but decide already.

Lebrun does make a valid point, however in the Bruins' defense there is still la very real possibility that they decide to move forward with Julien as their head coach, after all they did give hi ma multi-year extension at the start of the season.