The Bruins qualified for the playoffs in Cheevers’ next three seasons, their best run to the 1983 Eastern Conference Final, a six-game loss to the Islanders. He was fired 56 games into 1984-85, his GM stepping in before hiring Butch Goring, who went 37-31 with 12 ties in 1985-86 and was fired 12 games into 1986-87 (5-7, one tie).<\/p>\n
Today in Boca Raton, Florida, Cheevers admits that he’ll see more of the Florida Panthers, who play a half hour from his home, than he will his Bruins. He good-naturedly declines the opportunity to offer any advice to Marco Sturm, who finished his first season as Bruins coach and played part of his career wearing the spoked-B crest.<\/p>\n
“I met Marco at a golf tournament last year and I was quite impressed with him,” Cheevers said. “He was positive, upbeat and I think he’s going to be a great coach for the Bruins. I like his attitude and he was a good player, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’d hesitate to offer advice to any coach. It’s so different than it was nearly 50 years ago when I coached.”<\/p>\n
And then, with a chuckle: “Best I can say is just try to win, then get out of town.”<\/p>\n
Top photo: Boston Bruins goalie Gerry Cheevers in action during a 1970s game at Boston Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bruins qualified for the playoffs in Cheevers’ next three seasons, their best run to the 1983 Eastern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-784121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}