Bob Boughner

Bob Boughner
Date of birth	March 8, 1971
place of birth	Windsor , Ontario , Canada
Nickname	The Boogieman
size	183 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1989 , 2nd lap, 32nd position Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1986-1987	Belle River Canadiens
1987-1988	St. Mary's Lincoln
1988-1991	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
1991-1992	Toledo Storm
1992-1994	Adirondack Red Wings
1994-1995	Cincinnati Cyclones
1995-1996	Carolina Monarchs
1996-1998	Buffalo Sabers
1998-2000	Nashville Predators
2000-2001	Pittsburgh Penguins
2001-2003	Calgary Flames
2003-2004	Carolina Hurricanes
2004-2006	Colorado Avalanche

Bob Boughner
Coaching stations
2005-2006	Windsor Spitfires (President & Owner)
2006-2010	Windsor Spitfires (Head Coach, President & Owner)
2010-2011	Columbus Blue Jackets (assistant coach)
2011-2015	Windsor Spitfires (Head Coach, President & Owner)
2015-2017	San Jose Sharks (Assistant Coach)
2017-2019	Florida Panthers (Head Coach)
since 2019	San Jose Sharks (Assistant and Head Coach)

Robert D. "Bob" Boughner (born March 8, 1971 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach and official who played 695 games for the Buffalo Sabers , Nashville , during his active career between 1986 and 2006 Predators , Pittsburgh Penguins , Calgary Flames , Carolina Hurricanes and Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . Since December 2019 he has been acting as head coach of the San Jose Sharks on an interim basis , having previously looked after the Florida Panthers (2017-2019) in the NHL . He has also been co-owner and president of the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League since April 2006 .

Career

As a player

Boughner played between 1986 and 1988 in the lower class junior leagues of Ontario before he was sixth in the first round of the OHL Priority Selection in 1988 from Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds was selected from the Ontario Hockey League . These signed the defender straight away and deployed him for three years between 1988 and 1991. In his senior year he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup , the championship trophy of the OHL, with the greyhounds .

After the defender had already been selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1989 in the second round in 32nd place by the Detroit Red Wings from the National Hockey League , he moved in the summer of 1991 in their organization. In the following three game years, however, Boughner - whether the big competition in the Detroit squad - did not have a regular place in the farm team , the Toledo Storm from the East Coast Hockey League and the Adirondack Red Wings from the American Hockey League . Due to the hopeless situation to qualify for an NHL place in Detroit, the defensive player therefore moved in July 1994 as a free agent to the Florida Panthers . Also because of the lockout , which delayed the beginning of the 1994/95 season , Boughner found himself again in the farm teams. First in the 1994/95 season with the Cincinnati Cyclones in the International Hockey League , later in the 1995/96 season with the Carolina Monarchs in the AHL. It was not until the move to the Buffalo Sabers in February 1996 against a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1996 that the Canadian made his NHL debut. The remainder of this and the two following years of play until spring 1998 he spent in the regular squad of the Sabers, before he was selected in the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft by the newly formed Nashville Predators .

Boughner belonged to this franchise for almost two playing years and had his most productive year in the NHL to date with 13 scorer points. In March 2000, the defender left Nashville as the Pittsburgh Penguins secured his services in exchange for Pavel Skrbek . After only a year in Pittsburgh, he moved to the Calgary Flames in the summer of 2001 , where he signed a contract as a free agent. Together with Craig Conroy, he held the office of team captain in the 2001/02 season , then that of assistant captain . In his sophomore year in Calgary, he improved his personal points yield to 17. Despite the successful years in the Canadian Olympic city, Boughner was given in July 2003 in exchange for two draft rights to the Carolina Hurricanes . Here, too, his stay was not long, as he was transferred to the Colorado Avalanche during the 2003/04 season for Chris Bahen and again two options in the draft . There he ended the season and paused the 2004/05 game year due to another lockout. In the 2005/06 season he let his career end in the jersey of the Avalanche and announced his retirement on June 15, 2006.

As a trainer

Immediately after the end of his active career, Boughner bought - together with the also former NHL players Warren Rychel and Peter Dobrich - the troubled Windsor Spitfires franchise from the Ontario Hockey League . While Rychel took over the post of Vice President and General Manager , Boughner found himself as President and also took over the post of head coach for the 2006/07 season . In his second year as coach, Boughner won the Matt Leyden Trophy as the best coach of the OHL season and then the Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award of the entire Canadian Hockey League . He repeated these successes in the 2008/09 season . He also won both the J. Ross Robertson Cup and the Memorial Cup with the team . Furthermore, he won the gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament the following summer as the coach of a Canadian junior team .

The 2009/10 season was also extremely successful for the coach. He defended both title wins from the previous year with the Spitfires and was appointed head coach of the Canadian selection at the U18 Junior World Championship in Belarus in 2010, which ended disappointingly with a seventh place. Before the 2010/11 game year , Boughner resigned from his post as head coach of the Windsor Spitfires after he had accepted an engagement as an assistant coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets from the National Hockey League . However, the collaboration with Boughner only lasted one season, so he returned to the Spitfires as head coach for the 2011/12 season. He filled this position until the summer of 2015, before he again accepted an NHL offer to work under head coach Peter DeBoer as an assistant coach at the San Jose Sharks . With these he reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 2015/16 season .

In June 2017, Boughner was introduced as the new head coach of the Florida Panthers from the NHL. He looked after the team for two seasons, but missed the playoffs and was sacked in April 2019. He was succeeded by Joel Quenneville . A little later, the San Jose Sharks announced the return of Boughner as assistant coach, where he continued to work under Peter DeBoer. However, he succeeded him as head coach of the Sharks in December 2019 after DeBoer was fired.

Achievements and Awards

• 1991 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds

As a trainer

2008 Matt Leyden Trophy 2008 OHL First All-Star Team 2008 Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award 2009 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Windsor Spitfires 2009 Memorial Cup win with the Windsor Spitfires 2009 Matt Leyden Trophy

2009 OHL First All-Star Team 2009 Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award 2009 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Windsor Spitfires 2010 Memorial Cup win with the Windsor Spitfires

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1988/89	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	OHL		64	6th	15th	21st	182		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds	OHL		49	7th	23	30th	122		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	OHL		64	13	33	46	156		14th	2	9	11	35
1991/92	Toledo Storm	ECHL		28	3	10	13	79		5	2	0	2	15th
1991/92	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		1	0	0	0	7th		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		69	1	16	17th	190		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		72	8th	14th	22nd	292		10	1	1	2	18th
1994/95	Cincinnati Cyclones	IHL		81	2	14th	16	192		10	0	0	0	18th
1995/96	Carolina Monarchs	AHL		46	2	15th	17th	127		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		31	0	1	1	104		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		77	1	7th	8th	225		11	0	1	1	9
1997/98	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		69	1	3	4th	165		14th	0	4th	4th	15th
1998/99	Nashville Predators	NHL		79	3	10	13	137		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Nashville Predators	NHL		62	2	4th	6th	97		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		11	1	0	1	69		11	0	2	2	15th
2000/01	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		58	1	3	4th	147		18th	0	1	1	22nd
2001/02	Calgary Flames	NHL		79	2	4th	6th	170		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Calgary Flames	NHL		69	3	14th	17th	126		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		43	0	5	5	80		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		11	0	0	0	8th		11	0	4th	4th	6th
2004/05	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		not played because of lockout
2005/06	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		41	1	6th	7th	54	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				177	26th	71	97	460	14th	2	9	11	35
ECHL total				28	3	10	13	79	5	2	0	2	15th
IHL total				81	2	14th	16	192	10	0	0	0	18th
AHL total				188	11	45	56	616	10	1	1	2	18th
NHL overall				630	15th	57	72	1382	65	0	12	12	67

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

NHL coaching statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	OTN	Pt	space		Sp	S.	N	result
2017/18	Florida panthers	NHL		82	44	30th	8th	96	4th, Atlantic		-	-	-	not qualified
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL		82	36	32	14th	86	5th, Atlantic		-	-	-	not qualified
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		37	14th	20th	3	31	8th, Pacific		-	-	-	not qualified
NHL overall				201	94	82	25th	213	0 division title		-	-	-	0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

Web links

• Bob Boughner at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Bob Boughner at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Bob Boughner at hockeydb.com (English)