The ever-affable Jim Montgomery fielded questions from Boston reporters on Thursday morning ahead of his first game back at the Garden since he and the Bruins’ parted ways a little over a year ago, when one scribe started to diplomatically address that parting.

“So Jim, when you were let go…” went the question before the St. Louis Blues coach interrupted, having none of the euphemism.

“I got fired!,” said Montgomery, through his familiar belly laugh. “Call it what it is!”

There was no hint of bitterness in the coach’s tone. He was just telling like it it. He’s also knee-deep in trying right the ship with his own team to be too concerned with what happened a year ago. The Blues are one of the more disappointing teams this year and he’s coming off a minor spat with his goaltender Jordan B

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