Confirmed with Link: Sens Hire Le Chiffre aka Guy Boucher, brings the Crawdaddy with him

[internetdotcom]

Haven't read the whole thread, so this may already have been said, but I suggest we right now nickname Boucher The Mouth (due to his emotion behind the bench, and obviously Bouche means 'mouth' ).

 

[Senateurs]

Haven't read the whole thread, so this may already have been said, but I suggest we right now nickname Boucher The Mouth (due to his emotion behind the bench, and obviously Bouche means 'mouth' ).

Boucher means Butcher. As in "I'm going to carve you up"

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

Boucher means Butcher. As in "I'm going to carve you up"

In that case, I vote we nickname Crawford and our as-of-yet-unnamed second assistant The Baker and The Candlestick-Maker, respectively.

 

[Micklebot]

What if....there was no safe option?

The more I think of it, the less appealing Boudreau looks. Dude is basically the coach version of a UFA looking for the last big payday before retirement. He was a good coach for a long time, but the way the league is changing, who knows if Boudreau would've done for us.

I think it's pretty unfair to suggest that Boudreau doesn't have what it takes to coach in today' game. The guy completely changed his system mid season and was able to get tons of success out of it. Boudreau has shown that he can adapt his system.

Where you might be able to criticize Boudreau is getting over the hump (playoff failures) and you could make a case that he's always had the luxury of elite teams, so who knows how he'll fair with more of a bubble team.

I still think that Boudreau was about as safe an option as there is out there. He can coach an offensive system, or a defensive one, he can adapt, he's got a track record, he isn't a lunatic. I could see a contending team shying away due to the playoff failures, but a team looking for regular season success, and looking to develop the guys it has should have no worries with him.

Boucher is somewhat unproven, and is a risk as well. But, it's mitigated somewhat by Crawford (hopefully).

Either choice was a risk. Same with Yeo or Hartley....or anyone else.



Feels like most folks are on board with Boucher.

I'm happy. I still miss Paulrus, but Boucher is going to be better than Cameron. I'm really interested to see the Boucher-Crawford interaction behind the bench. It could be just like when Roger Neilson started using video as a teaching tool back in the day....it could be so successful, it causes a coaching revolution in the NHL.

Well, I guess technically every coach has an associated risk, even Babcock, Sutter and Quenneville. But I think going with Boucher was certainly not a choice you make because you're playing it safe.

The guy has impressed me every time he talks though, and unlike some of his predecessors, he seems to get a little more specific in how he'll address the team; things like the above post on his accelerated PP go into far more detail that comments like "hold them accountable", "best players play" or "200 foot game". Cameron I guess talked about his "5-5-5" system where he want's all 5 guys tight together in the same zone playing as a unit, but that's all I can think of.

 

[Upgrayedd]

He looks eerily similar to Mads Mikkelsen's portrayal of the Bond Villain "Le Chiffre", from the movie Casino Royale.

Also: facial scars.

Thanks, I thought it was actually his nickname and the only thing I could come close to was that he was a "Numbers" Guy...

 

[aragorn]

He is a very well spoken guy considering English is his second language but I want to see how the players respond. It's still quite fresh with PM & DC who both had early success with these guys before they lost them. Hopefully, the combination of Boucher & Crawford will turn out better than the combination of PM & DC but it inevitably will be up to how the players respond & whether they are able to achieve a hard working level of consistency with this group over an entire season or two or three. I think they can get them in the playoffs but can they get them further then the first round & then can they get them to improve going into the following season. Tall order & one which previous coaches have all failed at.

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Yep. The new car smell will get the team into the playoffs but then they'll get bored in year two and Marc Crawford will get the head coaching job, and he'll be replaced in one or two years. The players are never held accountable here and that goes back to Bryan Murray, who basically had a free for all as long as the team won.

I would love to sign Sheldon Keef as our other assistant just to spite Toronto and steal a promising young talent. Could be a nice mix of new and old school between him and Crawford.

If Toronto allows us to interview or take someone it's because they want to. They allowed us to interview Carlyle, so that shows you how much they care (not much).

 

[Icelevel]

In that case, I vote we nickname Crawford and our as-of-yet-unnamed second assistant The Baker and The Candlestick-Maker, respectively.

he's known as the crow. no?
Pretty sure they have already worked on a clothing line together as The Butcher and The Crow. Here is their website. Pretty cool stuff.

http://www.thebutcherandthecrow.com/index.php?page=collections&collection=2&image_id=12

 

[Tragedy]

Interview with the French Broadcast team.

A lot of the same things he said in the 208 interviews he did since Monday but he expanded on the “accelerated Power playâ€

He wants to change the mindset on the PP. Most teams will take their time and slow things down because they have 2 mins. When it doesn’t work, the other team gains momentum from the kill.

Instead you up the tempo, try to score or gain momentum off of it.

He also addressed two things that I’ve been complaining about that for years now.

- Our RH vs LH ratio on the PP
- The fact that we don’t have the one-time option with Karlsson.

He puts a lot of importance on who is RH or LH.
Karlsson is too much of a feeder, he needs someone to feed him pucks for one timers




http://uniquefm.ca/infos-unique/nous-travaillerons-dabord-sur-la-defensive

Mid or I feed.

But for real, I was saying this the other day, the PP had some real good looks in the preseason with Chabot feeding EK for some one timers and I am not sure where that went when the regular season started

 

[Senateurs]

Mid or I feed.

But for real, I was saying this the other day, the PP had some real good looks in the preseason with Chabot feeding EK for some one timers and I am not sure where that went when the regular season started

Seriously it was frustrating to see the umbrella with EK, Ryan and Hoffman exchange the puck on their strong side but nobody being able to onetime it. Apparently, (talking to an ex scout) Karlsson doesn't like to play on the left side. That's fine with me if he's at the top of the umbrella and he's feeding pucks to Hoffman or Phaneuf on the right side and Zib, Ceci, Ryan, Turris or on the left side.

Also, I believe one of the reason Zack Smith had so much success is because he was often the only LH shooter on the PP. With 4 RH players, the puck moved in the same direction most of the time but when it went into the slot, you had a LH guy to onetime it. Legwand had limited success on our PP two seasons ago for the same reason.

 

[Rysto]

It still drives me insane that this team can't find enough left-handed shots for our PP. That should be the easiest problem in the world to solve, but it's been a problem here since we lost Redden and Heatley.

 

[Senateurs]

It still drives me insane that this team can't find enough left-handed shots for our PP. That should be the easiest problem in the world to solve, but it's been a problem here since we lost Redden and Heatley.

On one end, it's the RH/LH ratio but it's also the system and execution.

I remember when our PP had 4 LH players : Bonk, Havlat, Hossa, Redden and Alfi being the only RH player.

The play would be down low, overloading the side at the left of the goaltender and if that didn’t work out, Alfie had the bid onetimer ready at the point. Redden knew how to pass but Alfie, unlike Zibby, was able to onetime any puck to the net.

Like the saying goes: “there is no such thing as a bad pass to a great playerâ€

 

[BadMcFadden]

Mid or I feed.

I hope this was a heroes of newerth (or other MOBA game) reference cause I chortled at that.

 

[BondraTime]

The most dangerous we ever were offensively on the PP is when we had Alfredsson on his offside one-timing pucks. (albeit, we had Heatley/Spezza/Redden on at the same time).

We have no forwards capable of that role, unless Zibanejad can develop the accuracy that Alfredsson had. Ryan doesn't possess the one time ability, nor does Hoffman/Stone/Turris or any of our other guys. I'd love if Zib spent time working on his one-tee placement during the summer along with his training.

 

[BonkTastic]

And the great Circle of Coaches goes on...

 

[TrueGrit]

The most dangerous we ever were offensively on the PP is when we had Alfredsson on his offside one-timing pucks. (albeit, we had Heatley/Spezza/Redden on at the same time).

We have no forwards capable of that role, unless Zibanejad can develop the accuracy that Alfredsson had. Ryan doesn't possess the one time ability, nor does Hoffman/Stone/Turris or any of our other guys. I'd love if Zib spent time working on his one-tee placement during the summer along with his training.

I've never seen anybody whiff on as many one timers as Zibanejad, get it at the net before worrying about placement.

 

[Sentron5000]

I've never seen anybody whiff on as many one timers as Zibanejad, get it at the net before worrying about placement.

The worst part is he's money when shooting during the shootout. Which leads me to believe he's better shooting when not on the one timer. Maybe if they switched up his and Ryan's role, it might lead to some improvement.

 

[Senateurs]

The most dangerous we ever were offensively on the PP is when we had Alfredsson on his offside one-timing pucks. (albeit, we had Heatley/Spezza/Redden on at the same time).

It would be interesting to see if our PP was better during the pizza line years or with the czechoslovak trio and Redden in the early 2000.

We have no forwards capable of that role, unless Zibanejad can develop the accuracy that Alfredsson had. Ryan doesn't possess the one time ability, nor does Hoffman/Stone/Turris or any of our other guys. I'd love if Zib spent time working on his one-tee placement during the summer along with his training.

Hoffman can definitely one time a puck and I'm sure he's going to play the right side more often. But I agree with Zibby. If he could only learn to adjust his body position instead of waiting for the perfect pass. Alfie was very good at one timing any pass coming his way.

 

[Micklebot]

And the great Circle of Coaches goes on...

That would be pretty funny if he went on to have success over there.

 

[Samsquanch]

That would be pretty funny if he went on to have success over there.

I would laugh a lot harder if the Ducks actually fired Boudreau for Luke Richardson.

Im really not convinced that he's head coach material in the NHL. And I think that he's too damn nice for anyone to tell him the truth about it, and how its dumb that hes holding out until he gets a gig. What has he proven yet lol?

Good luck to him I guess...

 

[Pronto]

Interesting article with Boucher yesterday on rds.ca... apologies if it was already reported elsewhere. Some of the highlights:

- Crawford will get the Ds: ''When you have guys like Karlsson and Phaneuf, they deserve experience and quality, it take someone solid to listen to what they have to say and keep up with them''.
-Looking for a goalie coach, they have tons of resumes to look at.
- He wants an assistant coach on the bench to take care of the forwards.
- He wants another assistant coach watching the game from the gallery for special missions like looking at other teams PP, advanced stats on certain players...
- Feels the Ds is a real top 4, mentioning Ceci's recent emergence.
- Leadership will be different with a full year of Phaneuf and MacArthur and states ''when a team collapses, don't look anywhere else but leadership...''

 

[TheNewEra]

Interesting article with Boucher yesterday on rds.ca... apologies if it was already reported elsewhere. Some of the highlights:

- Crawford will get the Ds: ''When you have guys like Karlsson and Phaneuf, they deserve experience and quality, it take someone solid to listen to what they have to say and keep up with them''.
-Looking for a goalie coach, they have tons of resumes to look at.
- He wants an assistant coach on the bench to take care of the forwards.
- He wants another assistant coach watching the game from the gallery for special missions like looking at other teams PP, advanced stats on certain players...
- Feels the Ds is a real top 4, mentioning Ceci's recent emergence.
- Leadership will be different with a full year of Phaneuf and MacArthur and states ''when a team collapses, don't look anywhere else but leadership...''

this is amazing, we are leaving the dark ages

 

[Knave]

Is there a video/audio link of the full interview? I'm going clip by clip.

The two clips I found and what I got out of it if any English speakers are interested:

"When you accepted the job - what did you really like about the Senators?"

- Likes the defence
- A real top 4 defense group
- Ceci playing at worlds is a young and exceptional player
- He was hearing from people about how great Ceci was (on and off the ice)
- Next year he could be a guy who plays against the top lines of opposing teams
- The addition of Phaneuf was a great, brilliant move.
- Loves Ceci-Phaneuf
- Team needed Phaneuf. Brings experience, maturity.
- Indirectly referred to Phaneuf helping Ceci
- Ceci young but with Phaneuf and at end of season he looked great. Like he suddenly had more in the tank.
- And then he mentioned Methot-Karlsson (not as an afterthought but kind of "yeah, I love our defense").
- Didn't mention who the bottom 2 slots were but said it doesn't really matter too much because of our top 4 being so good.
- A real top 4 (he said this pretty much verbatim at the start and end of his answer).


"Will Crawford work with the defense?"

- Yes
- We have Karlsson and Phaneuf - need a solid guy who they'll listen to, talk to, respect.
- They've been coached by some good coaches (Phaneuf - Babcock).
- He explains he doesn't think Karlsson/Phaneuf have problems listening to people - but he thinks Crawford working with the defense is a good fit.

 

[Pronto]

Is there a video/audio link of the full interview? I'm going clip by clip.

The two clips I found and what I got out of it if any English speakers are interested:

"When you accepted the job - what did you really like about the Senators?"

- Likes the defence
- A real top 4 defense group
- Ceci playing at worlds is a young and exceptional player
- He was hearing from people about how great Ceci was (on and off the ice)
- Next year he could be a guy who plays against the top lines of opposing teams
- The addition of Phaneuf was a great, brilliant move.
- Loves Ceci-Phaneuf
- Team needed Phaneuf. Brings experience, maturity.
- Indirectly referred to Phaneuf helping Ceci
- Ceci young but with Phaneuf and at end of season he looked great. Like he suddenly had more in the tank.
- And then he mentioned Methot-Karlsson (not as an afterthought but kind of "yeah, I love our defense").
- Didn't mention who the bottom 2 slots were but said it doesn't really matter too much because of our top 4 being so good.
- A real top 4 (he said this pretty much verbatim at the start and end of his answer).


"Will Crawford work with the defense?"

- Yes
- We have Karlsson and Phaneuf - need a solid guy who they'll listen to, talk to, respect.
- They've been coached by some good coaches (Phaneuf - Babcock).
- He explains he doesn't think Karlsson/Phaneuf have problems listening to people - but he thinks Crawford working with the defense is a good fit.

Same here plus the French transcript.

 

[edguy]

Great to see Ceci getting so much love from the new coach! He really did elavate his game once given a real defense partner over Wiercioch (actually forget how to spell his name thats how little ive heard about him lately)

The bottom 2 should be an interesting battle between Boro/Wideman/Chabot/Claesson/Kostka (?)