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Bruins Have Interviewed Jay Leach, Mitch Love, Luke Richardson For Head Coach Job

May 22, 2025 at 12:47 pm CDT | by Josh Erickson 6 Comments

The Bruins have had several external candidates linked to their head coaching vacancy for several weeks since the regular season ended. Today, Pierre LeBrun of TSN and The Athletic confirmed they’ve held initial interviews with most of the names already mentioned. Still, he added that they’d also considered promoting assistant coach Jay Leach to the head job. They’ve also interviewed Capitals assistant Mitch Love and former Blackhawks bench boss Luke Richardson, LeBrun adds.

LeBrun’s report comes after general manager Don Sweeney told Steve Conroy of the Boston Herald earlier this week that they’re entering the final stages of their search and are narrowing their list of candidates to make a hire in the next couple of weeks. Other previously known candidates who haven’t been snapped up elsewhere are former Bruins winger and current AHL Ontario head coach Marco Sturm, ex-Oilers bench boss Jay Woodcroft, and interim head coach Joe Sacco, LeBrun confirms.

It’s not the first time the Bruins have interviewed Leach to be their head coach. He was a finalist for their vacancy in 2022 before they ended up hiring Jim Montgomery, but they got him anyway last summer as an assistant after he spent three years in the same role with the Kraken.

Boston faces competition from the Penguins on many of the names here. Pittsburgh has also reportedly interviewed Leach, Love, and Woodcroft throughout their process. That’s likely a factor in the Bruins wanting to get their search wrapped up sooner rather than later, so they can ensure the Pens don’t take their first choice.

Leach spent a few years in the Boston organization in the NHL and AHL during his playing days, and is now in his second stint with the club as a coach. He was previously the head coach of AHL Providence from 2017 to 2021.

Love, meanwhile, is now connected to all three remaining head coach openings, including the Kraken, after the Blackhawks concluded their search with the hiring of Jeff Blashill today. After receiving some interest for head coach openings in the 2023 hiring cycle but ending up in an assistant role in Washington, he’s one of the top candidates this time around. The 40-year-old would be a first time head coach in the NHL but has experience in the top coaching role with the WHL’s Saskatoon Blades (2018-2021) and the AHL’s Stockton Heat/Calgary Wranglers (2021-2023), where he won Coach of the Year honors in each of his two seasons behind the bench.

They’re not facing any known competition on Richardson, though. It’s the first time he’s been linked to a head coaching job since the Blackhawks fired him in December following an 8-16-2 start to the campaign. The 56-year-old compiled a 57-118-15 (.339) record in parts of three seasons behind the bench for a rebuilding Chicago club.

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  1. fightcitymayor

    3 weeks ago

    Such a prestigious list of A-grade possibilities!
    I guess I wouldn’t be totally against Jay Leach.

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    • aka.nda

      3 weeks ago

      Haha. Jay Leach is the only one I could feel good about if I were a Bruins fan, so here’s hoping for ya! I’d be happy to have Mitch Love in Seattle though, would actually prefer him to Leach here (though I’m not expecting good news on this front, just praying we don’t reunite Kakko and Laviolette), but I do hope Leach will get a crack this year. Seems like he’s got the chops. I’m so confused about what both of these teams will become next season.

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    • willy

      3 weeks ago

      Just because you don’t know who these coaches are doesn’t mean any of them are bad…

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    • willy

      3 weeks ago

      No thanks, go outside the organization, please!

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  2. 8EL8

    3 weeks ago

    The Bruins are a good ole boys fraternity, Hire player alumni for executive positions, And make sure they have little or no expertise in that position, It’s a laughable philosophy, But that’s exactly what they continue to do. The Flyers also practice the same silliness.

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  3. Nobby

    3 weeks ago

    Think out of the box. New Head Coach, Brad Marchand.

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