Bruins parting ways with controversial prospect Mitchell Miller

INFORMATION. THAT’S WHAT HE WAS GETTING TO THERE. SO FAR TONIGHT, NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE IT. RENDON TRUITT, WBZ NEWS. >>> BREAKING TONIGHT AFTER DAYS OF INTENSE CRITICISM THE BRUINS HAVE DECIDED TO PART WITH MITCHELL MILLER THE CONTROVERSIAL PROSPECT EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. THE 20 A DEFENSEMEN WAS JUST SIGNED LAST WEEK TRIGGERING A FIRESTORM OVER HIS TEENAGED CONVICTION FOR BULLYING AND ABUSING A DISABLED CLASSMATE. THE BRUINS PRESIDENT CAM NEELY ANNOUNCED THE REVERSAL TONIGHT IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT. DAN ROCHE IS HERE WITH MORE ON THE STORY . >> WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED THEY HAD SIGNED MITCHELL MILLER, A FIRESTORM

ERUPTED THAT NEVER LET UP . THE TEAM FACED CRITICISM FROM FANS, THEIR PLAYERS, AND EVEN THE NHL COMMISSIONER. IN A STATEMENT HE SAID THE TEAM QUOTE UNDERSTOOD THIS TO BE AN ISOLATED INCIDENT BASED ON NEW INFORMATION, AND WE BELIEVE IT IS THE BEST DECISION AT THIS TIME TO RESCIND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR MITCHELL MILLER TO REPRESENT THE BRUINS. WE OWE IT TO PLAYERS, STAFF, FANS, PARTNERS, AND THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE PROTOCOLS ARE IN KEEPING WITH THE EASELS THAT WE DEMAND FROM OURSELVES AS AN ORGANIZATION. THE GM ADMITTED FRIDAY THAT THE TEAM HAD NOT SPOKEN TO

THE VICTIM OR HIS FAMILY BEFORE SIGNING MITCHELL, BUT THE MOTHER OF THE VICTIM TOLD WBZ FRIDAY THAT THE HARASSMENT WENT ON FOR YEARS AND THAT HE ONLY APOLOGIZED TO HER SON

A WEEK AGO VIA SOCIAL MEDIA AS A CONDITION OF HIS DEAL WITH THE BRUINS. PATRICE BERGERON WAS AMONG THE PLAYERS WHO QUESTIONED THE SIGNING SAYING HIS BEHAVIOR GOES AGAINST THE CULTURE THAT THE TEAM TAKES MUCH PRIDE IN. A MEDIA ANALYST WAS IN TORONTO AS THEY DEALT WITH THE FALLOUT AND HE JOINS US FOR SPORTS FINAL. I ASKED WHAT THE MOOD WAS AROUND THE TEAM. >>

VERY EDGY. I THINK WHEN YOU OF THE PLAYERS AND THEY WERE ASKED ABOUT IT ON SATURDAY MORNING I GUESS IT WAS PRIOR TO THE GAME AGAINST THE MAPLE LEAFS, YOU CAN TAKE SOME OF THEIR COMMENTS WHETHER IT WAS BERGERON OR NICK FOLIGNO OR OTHERS AND IT WAS REAL FOR THEM. THEY WERE MIXED ON HOW THINGS WERE GOING AND HOW THINGS WERE MOVING FORWARD. >> WE WILL HAVE MORE WITH BOB