Pierre from Orleans
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- May 9, 2007
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When Pierre Dorion took over as GM, a few years back, he proclaimed "why not win now"!!
So he brought in a coach to "win now" and made TDD acquisitions to help with the "win now" plan ....... the Boucher brought them to the conference finals, within one goal of the SCFs.
At the beginning of last season .......... there was to re-build under way..........no re-tooling ......... it was still "win now" mode and Boucher coached under that mandate.
He was NOT tasked with bringing in young players, and play and develop them at the NHL level ... and he played the older players that Dorion brought in (Odoya, Thompson ect) ..... to "win now"
Then the wheels fell of the "win now" bandwagon, and the GM began to unload as many older players he could in the run up to the TD ....... and the "win now" plan was a distant memory........... and Boucher was then tasked to play the call ups from Belleville, so that management could assess what they had in their system, and were these player were at.
I don't blame Boucher for coaching in "win now" mode for his first season and a half as head coach ............he was following the direction coming from the GM.
So now it obvious that the plan is something along the lines of a re-tool or re-build, and playing the younger players ........ and Boucher will do what his GM will be asking of him ......... and will be motivated by the fact that he's in his last year of his contract.
Him playing the vets didnt result in much wins so why keep playing them if the mandate was to "win now"?