By Jeremy Rutherford (The Athletic)
The two boys rode in their dad’s car, while the two girls jumped in mom’s for the nearly 10-hour drive.
It was late June, seven months after Jim Montgomery had been fired as head coach of the Dallas Stars after an undisclosed, alcohol-related incident, and he and wife Emily were finally leaving Dallas and taking their four children to their new home in St. Louis.
They had narrowed their choices to St. Louis, where Montgomery played for the Blues, his wife was from and they’d eventually meet, or Denver, where he coached college hockey for five seasons.
“St. Louis won,” Montgomery said. “For our kids to have cousins to play with … the decision to come here for our kids’ benefit was really the deciding factor. So we drove our two cars here, plopped right in, and started to live.”
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