Bruce Boudreau

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Bruce Boudreau
Date of birth January 9, 1955
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 175 cm
Weight 77 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1975 , 3rd round, 42nd position
Toronto Maple Leafs
WHA Amateur Draft 1975 , 1st round, 14th position
Minnesota Fighting Saints
Career stations
1972-1975 Toronto Marlboros
1975-1976 Minnesota Fighting Saints
Johnstown Jets
1976-1983 Toronto Maple Leafs
1983-1984 St. Catharines Saints
1984-1985 ECD Iserlohn
Baltimore Skipjacks
1985 Chicago Black Hawks
1985-1987 Nova Scotia Oilers
1987-1989 Springfield Indians
1989-1990 Phoenix Roadrunners
1990-1992 Fort Wayne Comet

Bruce Allan Boudreau (born January 9, 1955 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player (center) and current coach who served from 1977 to 1984 for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League (NHL) for played the Minnesota Fighting Saints in the World Hockey Association and for the ECD Iserlohn in the ice hockey Bundesliga . Most recently, he served as the head coach of the Minnesota Wild from May 2016 to February 2020 . Previously, he was in the NHL for the Washington Capitals (2007-2011) and the Anaheim Ducks (2011-2016) and won the 2008 Jack Adams Award as the best coach in the league.

Career

As a player

Boudreau played during his junior years with the Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Hockey Association and won the Memorial Cup with them in 1972 and 1975 . In the 1974 WHA Amateur Draft , the Minnesota Fighting Saints selected him in the first round in 14th position. A year later he was approved for the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft and was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third round as the 42nd player.

Although he would have preferred to stay in Toronto, Boudreau could not come to an agreement with the Maple Leafs and played for the Minnesota Fighting Saints in the World Hockey Association in the 1975/76 season . A year later he was able to come to an agreement with Toronto, but in addition to 15 NHL appearances in the 1976/77 season , he mostly played with the Dallas Black Hawks in the Central Hockey League . In the following years he also commuted between the NHL and the farm team , which meanwhile were the New Brunswick Hawks in the American Hockey League and the Cincinnati Tigers in the CHL. In the 1982/83 season he played for the St. Catharines Saints in the AHL and was appointed to the Maple Leafs squad for four playoff games. Here he scored a goal.

He shared the 1984/85 season between the Baltimore Skipjacks in the AHL and the ECD Iserlohn in the German Bundesliga. This was followed by an offer from the NHL by the Chicago Black Hawks , but here too he was mostly on the AHL farm team for the Nova Scotia Oilers . He played his best season in the AHL in 1987/88 with the Springfield Indians , for whom he was the league's top scorer with 116 points. Further stations until 1992 were the AHL teams of the Newmarket Saints and Adirondack Red Wings as well as the Phoenix Roadrunners and Fort Wayne Komets in the International Hockey League .

As a trainer

The Capitals players listen to Bruce Boudreau's instructions

As a player in Fort Wayne, he had also taken on the post of assistant coach. In 1994 he led the team into the final series, which were lost. After a year as an assistant coach with the San Francisco Spiders in the IHL, he took over as head coach of the Mississippi Sea Wolves in the East Coast Hockey League . After he led the team to win the Kelly Cup in his third year , he moved to the AHL to the Lowell Lock Monsters . After two years he took over the Manchester Monarchs before coaching the Hershey Bears from 2005 . In the 2005/06 season he led the team to the Calder Cup . During the 2007/08 season , the Washington Capitals promoted him from the farm team coach in Hershey to the head coach of their NHL team in which Glen Hanlon had to vacate the place due to unsuccessfulness.

In 2009 the American Hockey League honored him for his services as a player and coach with the induction into the AHL Hall of Fame .

In late November 2011, he was replaced as head coach of the Washington Capitals by Dale Hunter . The Capitals had only won five of the 15 games previously. A few days later, the Anaheim Ducks signed him as head coach after the Californians had previously released Randy Carlyle from his duties. After the 2012/13 season, which was shortened due to a lockout, Boudreau was nominated for the Jack Adams Award - which he won once in 2008 - which is awarded annually to the coach in the National Hockey League who has contributed most to the success of his team . The nomination was based on the fact that the Californians won the Pacific Division for the second time in their history in 2013 and completed the most successful regular season in their history; With 66 points in 48 encounters, they took third place in the league.

Three more seasons followed, in which the Ducks dominated the Pacific Division and took first place in each case. In the playoffs, however, the team reached the conference final only once, so that Boudreau was relieved of his duties after another elimination in the first round in the playoffs in 2016. He left the team with the best points average of all coaches at that time of 64.8%.

Just a few days later, the Minnesota Wild signed him as the new head coach, where he succeeded interim coach John Torchetti . Towards the end of the 2017/18 season, Boudreau celebrated his 500th NHL victory in the 837th game and was the second fastest coach in league history to reach this milestone after Scotty Bowman (825 games).

The Canadian led the Wild into the playoffs in his first two years, but failed each time in the first round. After the team had missed the post-season in the 2018/19 season for the first time in six years and the 2019/20 season was also mixed, he was dismissed in February 2020 and replaced by his assistant Dean Evason .

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL: Regular season 7th 141 28 42 70 46
NHL: playoffs 3 9 2 0 2 4th
WHA: Regular season 1 30th 3 6th 9 4th
WHA: Playoffs - - - - - -
Bundesliga: main round 1 29 20th 27 47 37
Bundesliga: Playoffs 1 3 2 2 4th 6th

Sporting successes

Personal awards

Web links

Commons : Bruce Boudreau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ducks.nhl.com, Boudreau Named Finalist for 2012–13 Jack Adams Award
personal data
SURNAME Boudreau, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boudreau, Bruce Allan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario