Bruce Boudreau

[thelebaron]

ha first post in the pitt thread calling for coach replacements is oates. id like to see what bylsma could do with this team. id also love to see what oates could do to pittsburgh

 

[terranraida]

+1 for Bruce and the Ducks winning it all. Seeing Matty P play so well for them makes me miss him. He was arguably our best player in last year's playoffs and I'm glad to see he's still producing for them.

We're gonna need all the good vibes we can get

 

[Capitals1974]

I hope the Ducks lose 5-1 in game 7. I don't get the BB love from some.

 

[Atlas]

I hope the Ducks lose 5-1 in game 7. I don't get the BB love from some.

I think Bruce is out if his element at this level. We'll see what he's got. I'm rooting for LAK but not strongly.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Jeez if they win some of you are going to be so disappointed.

I'm no hater....I'm pulling for the guy.

 

[hb12xchamps]

I hope the Ducks lose 5-1 in game 7. I don't get the BB love from some.

He was clearly the best coach we had out of the bunch in the last 10 years and has a likeable personality?

 

[John Price]

Bb is my boy. Took the Kings to 7. Sometimes I think it was a mistake to let the lad go

Caps have not been the same since he left. In fact they missed the playoffs. Don't know if they would have rallied after their poor start the hunter year, at the time it did seem right.

 

[Koized]

Another game 7 loss likely, rough.

 

[troyerlaw]

He was clearly the best coach we had out of the bunch in the last 10 years and has a likeable personality?

Yeah but aside from that

 

[Brian23]

As I said awhile ago, BB is a guy I think will bounce from team to team for 3 or 4 years at a time and if he doesn't win it in those 4 years I think his message wears thin.

I just don't see him locking down with someone long term and having lots of post season success.

 

[troyerlaw]

It was weird knowing, before game even started, that at least one of these three would advance past Game 7 of second round: the Fat ****, Purrutu, and Double Nickel.

Maybe Plus Fiddy can send us all a postcard to let us know what the Promised Land looks like.

 

[HSHS]

Geaux kings geaux!!

Ba ha ha ha ha moron.

 

[Calicaps]

That's our Bruce.

 

[tycoonheart]

Typical Bruce collapse.

Double Nickle gets 20+ mins. Wow. How the f?

 

[Atlas]

Bruce is just not a big-time coach. He has his good points. But he can't counter. He is stubborn to a fault.

 

[Atlas]

And Bruce is a better coach than McPhee is a GM. That's how far away we were from winning a Cup with those clowns.

 

[Calicaps]

In a certain way, this collapse is worse than the Caps. To rally you team back from losing the first 2 at home to win 3 straight and be 1 win away and not be a able to capture the momentum and close it out. That is pretty terrible. No killer instinct.

 

[troyerlaw]

In a certain way, this collapse is worse than the Caps. To rally you team back from losing the first 2 at home to win 3 straight and be 1 win away and not be a able to capture the momentum and close it out. That is pretty terrible. No killer instinct.

Yeah but the kings are a legit, championship-caliber team with a recent Cup on their resumé.

Habs were nowhere near that when they stepped up and punched us in the face in 2010.

 

[Calicaps]

Yeah but the kings are a legit, championship-caliber team with a recent Cup on their resumé.

Habs were nowhere near that when they stepped up and punched us in the face in 2010.

Pens were in '09.

 

[troyerlaw]

Pens were in '09.

true

 

[troyerlaw]

The 2009 one wasn't a blown series. It was more memorable for the blow-out in Game 7. That's what I remember from it. An epic, back-and-forth series, including the game in which 8 and 87 each had a hat trick, and the stage was perfectly set, and ... crap. The Caps **** the bed.

And that's how tonite looked too, for the Ducks. I don't know how much is the coach, how much the players. But undeniably BB presided over both.

 

[Drakon]

And Bruce is a better coach than McPhee is a GM. That's how far away we were from winning a Cup with those clowns.

Really? Cause one could successfully argue that Hunter took basically the same group as far as Bruce did. So I think the credit goes to McPhee for assembling the roster.

 

[fsnoles98]

I'm not favoring Bruce and he did lose the locker room, but some of you talk, just to talk. BB has been successful with the Ducks, PERIOD. Where are our Caps, oh that's right golfing. Don't be a hater, BB has done well and good for him. I don't think it will last, but we haven't been that far is quite some time. Let it go.

 

[Capitals1974]

I hope the Ducks lose 5-1 in game 7. I don't get the BB love from some.

LOL. To those who think BB had very much if anything to do with the Caps "success" during 2007 -2011, just LOL. Whatever was "accomplished" (nothing) was DESPITE BB and DESPITE the incompetence of GMGM to get the pieces necessary to compete, it was mostly due to a few dynamic individual players who now suffer from the inability of BB to properly develop those players during their formative NHL years. BB is not a good coach, period. That is what is evident to me now, and was evident to me at least going back to the Montreal series, if not the Pittsburgh series. Your opinion may be different, but today I LOL. I like Bruce as a person, he seems nice, but not as an NHL coach.

 

[Langway]

@cmasisak22: Semyon Varlamov was pulled at 22:13 after allowing 4 goals on 18 shots in Game 7 in 2009. Gibson? Pulled at 22:02. 4 goals on 18 shots. Wow.

Spooky.