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

[BondraTime]

He lost the Lightning room if i recall correctly. What makes you think he won't lose the Sens locker room after the two last coaches lost the room?

Bad hire.

I love the sensationalist reaction people have while likely knowing little about Boucher.

 

[Micklebot]

Would have preferred Yeo, but Boucher always seems to get more hate than deserved around here, so he seems like a perfect match for the franchise in that regard.

On the plus side:
-We have a bond villain as our coach
-He known as a good PP coach

On the downside:
His system failed miserably once the rest of the league caught on. Can he adapt?
Trap is boring...

 

[Othello*]

People need to chill out.

Never thought I'd be saying that on here lmao.

 

[Super Cake]

Taken from news release:

“Over the past three weeks, Pierre Dorion and our hockey operations staff have undertaken a thorough and comprehensive search for our next head coach. Following a detailed evaluation of all coaching candidates, there was overwhelming consensus that Guy was our top candidate,” said Senators owner Eugene Melnyk. “We wanted a great coach and this process yielded our top pick. I couldn’t be happier. On behalf of the entire Senators organization, the great city of Ottawa and our fans, I want to welcome Guy, his wife Marsha and their three children, Vincent, Mila and Naomi.”

 

[Gil Gunderson]

He pretty much had to trap with that Tampa defence a few years ago.

 

[BondraTime]

Hoffman is loving life right now as well, if it weren't for Boucher, he'd be selling Toyota's right now. He turned his career around.

 

[SPF6ty9]

I don't know much about Boucher, but I am worried this is a typical Sens panic move responding to pissing off the fan base after blowing it with Boudreau. Just like the Alfie fiasco, we go out and trade for Bobby Ryan and it appeases us slightly, and then when people actually sit down and look at the mechanics of the deal, it turned out to be a poorly calculated knee jerk reaction.

That said I'm just glad it's not Hartley or Crawford, hope the best for Guy. Still disappointed about Boudreau but let's see what Boucher can do!

 

[Knave]

He pretty much had to trap with that Tampa defence a few years ago.

He could work out. I don't know... my issue is more that he lacks recent experience or the longevity of Yeo/Hartley.

He was coaching in Europe for a bit, right? Hopefully he's a guy who can self-reflect and adapt well to this team and the players we have.

 

[Micklebot]

People need to chill out.

Never thought I'd be saying that on here lmao.

Omg.... We agree on something! (first part, not the second part... well, who am I kidding a little of that too)

 

[BloodRedArmy]

what is the Hoffman/ Boucher connection?

 

[WORLDSTARHIPHOP]

Well Boucher was Toronto's second pick after Babcock last year...so can't be too bad

 

[edguy]

Im just going to go out on a limb and say Yeo was to pricey too. But i guess we will never know till Boucher's salary is released..

 

[Samsquanch]

I'm not going to bash the hire just yet..even though I was a Yeo fan.

I'm very confused by this press release though. Did they or did they not make an offer to Boudreau?

Boucher is not their #1 guy if they made that offer....

 

[Baby Ryan]

Wow was expecting Yeo. I'm fine with this

 

[WORLDSTARHIPHOP]

what is the Hoffman/ Boucher connection?

Coached him in the Q

 

[Micklebot]

Taken from news release:

“Over the past three weeks, Pierre Dorion and our hockey operations staff have undertaken a thorough and comprehensive search for our next head coach. Following a detailed evaluation of all coaching candidates, there was overwhelming consensus that Guy was our top candidate,†said Senators owner Eugene Melnyk. “We wanted a great coach and this process yielded our top pick. I couldn’t be happier. On behalf of the entire Senators organization, the great city of Ottawa and our fans, I want to welcome Guy, his wife Marsha and their three children, Vincent, Mila and Naomi.â€

To be fair, it would have been a dick move to say we got our # 2 pick.

 

[16w]

So are we going with the french name... Gi Boo-shay or the english Guy Bow-cher?

 

[HavlatMach9]

Well even if he sucks at least he still looks like a Bond villain

too true

not sure what to think of the hire though

 

[Knave]

To be fair, it would have been a dick move to say we got our # 2 pick.

He's likely our #3 given how much it was speculated we wanted Julien before the Bruins GM finally realized he'd look like an idiot letting Julien walk.

 

[Micklebot]

I'm not going to bash the hire just yet..even though I was a Yeo fan.

I'm very confused by this press release though. Did they or didn't get not make an offer to Boudreau?

Boucher is not the #1 guy of they made that offer....

Agreed. I think they would have felt bad saying we got our second choice though. I don't know if they did make an offer for Boudreau (I hope they did, but if not whatever) but I fully expected them to say we got our top candidate no matter who we hired.

 

[Benjamin]

So the timing shows Boudreau was clearly our #1 and we didn't get him because of money/term.

 

[BonkTastic]

Taken from news release:

“Over the past three weeks, Pierre Dorion and our hockey operations staff have undertaken a thorough and comprehensive search for our next head coach. Following a detailed evaluation of all coaching candidates, there was overwhelming consensus that Guy was our top candidate,†said Senators owner Eugene Melnyk. “We wanted a great coach and this process yielded our top pick. I couldn’t be happier. On behalf of the entire Senators organization, the great city of Ottawa and our fans, I want to welcome Guy, his wife Marsha and their three children, Vincent, Mila and Naomi.â€

Why the **** is Melnyk the guy who is quoted in the press release, and not Dorion?

In case anyone was curious as to who is in charge of this team - look no further. Bleh.

 

[BK201]

I don't know much about Boucher. Was hoping yeo myself but I guess I won't **** on it and give him a chance.

 

[Lehner]

So the timing shows Boudreau was clearly our #1 and we didn't get him because of money/term.

how?

 

[Micklebot]

He's likely our #3 given how much it was speculated we wanted Julien before the Bruins GM finally realized he'd look like an idiot letting Julien walk.

Why stop there, we probably would have preferred Quenneville or Babcock; stupid hawks and leafs not firing there guys so that we could get out top candidate.