National Hockey League team Dallas Stars have fired head coach Jim Montgomery for "unprofessional conduct," an official press release said on Tuesday, the same day as NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced a set of new protocols to monitor and punish inappropriate and abusive behavior in North America's best professional ice hockey league, amid a scandal that has implicated multiple team coaches

National Hockey League (NHL) Commissioner Gary Bettman has announced a series of programs and initiatives designed to tackle racist, homophobic and other abusive behavior by both players and personnel at a press conference after a Board of Governors meeting, against the background of a string of allegations levied against coaches in the past month