Guy Boucher

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CanadaCanada  Guy Boucher Ice hockey player
Date of birth 3rd August 1971
place of birth Notre-Dame-du-Lac , Quebec , Canada
position striker
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1991-1995 McGill University
1995-1996 Viry-Châtillon Essonne Hockey

Guy Boucher (born August 3, 1971 in Notre-Dame-du-Lac , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . In the National Hockey League (NHL), he previously served as head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning (2010-2013) and the Ottawa Senators (2016-2019).

Career

As a player

Boucher was initially active from 1991 to 1995 for the ice hockey team at McGill University , for which the Canadian played in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union . Following this time, the striker spent one season, the 1995/96 season , with the French first division club Viry-Châtillon Essonne Hockey and scored 48 points in a total of 35 games .

As a trainer

Relatively early on, Boucher began to pursue a career as a coach and initially worked for one season as an assistant coach for the McGill Redmen , for which he was an active player himself. Immediately after this engagement, three seasons followed in the same position with the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies from the top Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . From 2000 Boucher stood behind the gang as head coach of the lower-class Lac Saint-Louis Lions from the Midget AAA League . Back in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League, the Canadian served as assistant coach for Rimouski Océanic between 2003 and 2006, and during this time also coached the current NHL star Sidney Crosby . With the team he won the Coupe du Président in 2005 as master of the LHJMQ. The Rimouski Océanic had previously won the Trophée Jean Rougeau as the team with the highest points of the regular season.

For the 2008/09 season , the league competitor Drummondville Voltigeurs hired him as head coach, with which Boucher won the championship in his only season. He led the team to 54 wins and 112 points in the regular season, which was a new franchise record. This was recognized by the league with the award of the Paul Dumont Trophy as Personality of the Year. In June 2009, Boucher was named head coach of the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League . As a farm team of the Montreal Canadiens managed an excellent regular season with 52 wins in 80 games and the playoffs reaching the conference finals. For this he was awarded the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award as Trainer of the Year. For the 2010/11 season , he was promoted to head coach of the NHL team Tampa Bay Lightning , which Boucher led to the finals in his debut season.

On March 24, 2013 Boucher was fired from the Tampa Bay Lightning after he and his team could win only 13 games from the first 31 games of the 2012/13 NHL season and the team finished penultimate in the Eastern Conference .

From January 2014 coached Boucher, the team of SC Bern of the National League A . Under his leadership, the SCB won the Swiss Cup in the 2014/15 season . On November 17, 2015, he was released after a series of defeats.

Boucher returned to the NHL in May 2016, replacing Dave Cameron with the Ottawa Senators . The senator he led in his first season to the conference finals of the playoffs in 2017 , missed the post-season , but the following year and was eventually during a phase of complete reconstruction (rebuild) released in February of 2019. He was succeeded by Marc Crawford on an interim basis .

International

Boucher worked under Pat Quinn as assistant coach for the Canadian selection at the U20 World Junior Championships in 2009 . Previously, he had already coached the Canadian national team in the same role at the U18 World Junior Championships in 2006 , 2007 and 2008 . At the 2012 World Cup , he supported Brent Sutter , together with Kirk Muller , behind the gang.

For the Spengler Cup 2014 and Spengler Cup 2015 he worked as a trainer for Team Canada . In 2015 he led the team to victory in the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

International

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lightning fire coach Boucher. National Hockey League , March 24, 2013, accessed March 24, 2013 .
  2. ↑ SCB: Guy Boucher gone - Lars Leuenberger takes over. In: srf.ch. November 18, 2015, accessed November 25, 2015 .
  3. ^ Communiqué: Guy Boucher est nommé entraîneur-chef des Sénateurs d'Ottawa. In: senators.nhl.com. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Team Canada wins heated final | Spengler Cup. In: www.spenglercup.ch. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Boucher, Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Notre-Dame-du-Lac , Quebec