The Boston Bruins have reportedly setlled on former Dallas Stars and current St. Louis assistant Jim Montgomery as their next head coach. (AP photo)

It appears the Boston Bruins have settled on St. Louis Blues assistant Jim Montgomery as their new head coach.

Multiple reports Thursday night indicated the former Dallas Stars head coach is the Bruins’ top choice to replace Bruce Cassidy behind the bench, though there was no formal announcement.

Montgomery, who coached the Dallas Stars in 2018-19 but was fired for “unprofessional conduct” in December of 2019, surprisingly got the nod over former Boston University and New York Rangers coach David Quinn, plus a field that was rumored to include Penguins assistant Mike Vellucci, Jay Leach, Joe Sacco and others.

Montgomery was 60-43-10 as the Stars coach after being hired in the summer of 2018 from the University of Denver, where he won a national championship, for his first head coaching job in the NHL. Dallas made the playoffs in his first season before losing in double-overtime in Game 7 of its second-round series against the eventual Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blu

The next season did not go as smoothly but the Stars had seemingly recovered from a 1-7-1 start as they had won seven of eight and also enjoyed seven game winning streak to be 17-11-3 when Montgomery was let go. Ironically he was replaced by another former Bruins coach, Rick Bowness.

This season in St. Louis he reportedly worked mainly with special teams.

Cassidy was just recently hired to be the new Las Vegas Golden Knights head coach.