No I get it, but your saying you want Belichek and his first 8 seasons as a HC he missed the playoffs 6 times and had bad losing records many of those years.
If you can tell me you knew BB was a genius before everyone else then good for you. What BB had was a philosophy of how to win and he held to it, just like GB is doing.
Boucher is a good coach. He’s tactically intelligent, a good teacher, good with rookies and good with veterans.
Boucher had taken 2 teams to the ECF in 5 seasons. So let’s agree to disagree on this
Boucher has missed the playoffs 4/6 seasons he's coached in the NHL. That's bad. He deserves no credit for Ottawa making the Eastern final. That team made it in spite of his passive system on the back of a once in a generation performance by the best player who's ever worn a Sens sweater.
I can't tell you what Belichick did in Cleveland and whether he was the tactical genius he is now. But I can tell you Guy Boucher is no tactical genius. We haven't seen him once out coach the other team in at least 100 games straight here.
Like you were saying, he projects a positive mentality in dire circumstances. His background is sports psychology. That's is what I assume is his strength in this position. But it has resulted in a a record of 188 wins in 411 games coached in the NhL. Its not enough. I use Belichek to contrast because he's a miserable a hole. Not a motivator. I'm not throwing all of sports psychology out of the window, I just don't that it's an important aspect of a head coach's job.
A good tactician wouldn't make his team deliberately play without the puck so frequently, at almost historical levels. This is a feature of his own tactics. There is simply no logical basis or argument for claiming Boucher is "tactically intelligent". This is a man who sees great value in putting a guy like Tom Pyatt on the ice.
