Bruce Boudreau

Mike Sullivan glad he’s not Peter Laviolette, Bruce Boudreau believes blind people voted on most handsome NHL head coach list

On Tuesday, Sportsnet freelancer and former Kings of Leonsis founder, Adam Vingan, tweeted what appears to be The Definitive list for the most handsomest head coaches in the NHL. Put together by researchers from gambling.com, the sports betting website used the beauty measurement app, Golden Ratio Face, to determine who was the sexiest coach and who was the most looks-challenged.

Despite the list’s vast reach and discussion on Twitter, I thought giving coverage to something so superficial, ridiculous, and kinda mean was beneath even our non-lofty standards of coverage. Yet, NHL beat writers started asking head coaches about the list and inadvertently gave it a Capitals angle, thus making it in bounds for YA BOI IAN OLAND.

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By Ian Oland 5 days ago

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Bruce Boudreau will return as head coach of Vancouver Canucks for 2022-23 season

When the Vancouver Canucks hired Bruce Boudreau midseason to be their head coach, Boudreau signed a two-year contract with the owner Francesco Aquilini but that second season was optional.

Boudreau wanted a contract extension. But after the Canucks denied that request, Bruce had until June 1 to decide if he wanted to leave for another team or return.

Friday, May 13, the Canucks officially announced the gregarious head coach would return.

Bruce, there it is.

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By Ian Oland 5 months ago

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Bruce Boudreau critical of Evgeny Kuznetsov’s ’embellishment’ before Capitals’ game-tying PPG

The Washington Capitals defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 in overtime via a Lars Eller two-on-one goal.

But the Capitals only got there because of a game-tying Evgeny Kuznetsov power-play goal scored late in the third period. Kuznetsov drew an “illegal check to the head” penalty on Tyler Myers that gave the Capitals the extra man.

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By Ian Oland 7 months ago

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Bruce Boudreau not looking forward to Alex Ovechkin’s goal-scoring promise during warmups : ‘He knows it bugs me’

Alex Ovechkin and Bruce Boudreau led teams will once again play each other Friday at Rogers Arena. Boudreau is now in his first year as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks while Ovechkin enters tonight’s game one goal shy of passing Jaromir Jagr for third on the NHL’s all-time goals list.

Boudreau has been around Ovechkin since the start of the legend’s NHL career during the 2005-06 season. Boudreau, the then head coach of the Capitals’ AHL-affiliated Hershey Bears, was promoted to the Caps’ top coaching job two seasons later in 2007-08, leading Washington to the playoffs for the first time since the rebuild. Boudreau would also help push Ovechkin to the biggest offensive seasons of his career.

Boudreau’s relationship with Ovi is close and warm, but they also know how to push each other’s buttons.

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By Ian Oland 7 months ago

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Bruce Boudreau compares Alex Ovechkin to The Incredible Hulk: ‘The more you hit him, the stronger the angrier he gets’

Bruce Boudreau led Alex Ovechkin to some of his greatest seasons as a pro. Ovechkin scored a career-high 65 goals during Boudreau’s first year behind the Capitals bench in 2007-08. Ovi followed that up with 56- and 50-goal campaigns in Bruce’s next two seasons.

Since Bruce left Washington, Ovechkin continues to torment the NHL, but especially Boudreau-led teams. Coming into Sunday’s game against the Vancouver Canucks, Ovechkin had notched 20 points (10g, 10a) in 12 games against Boudreau’s Anaheim Ducks and Minnesota Wild over nine seasons.

Boudreau was asked how to stop his former pupil pregame.

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By Ian Oland 9 months ago

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Bruce Boudreau tied an NHL record by winning seven games in a row to start his tenure in Vancouver

The Vancouver Canucks may have lost Thursday night in a shootout to the Los Angeles Kings, but only a day prior they helped their new bench boss make some history.

Bruce Boudreau took over for Travis Green in Vancouver on December 6 and immediately got up to his usual antics.

While those usual antics may include an f-bomb here and a joke told there, they also include winning. On Wednesday night against the Anaheim Ducks, Bruce became only the third NHL coach in history to begin his tenure with a new team with seven straight wins.

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By Chris Cerullo 9 months ago

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Bruce Boudreau lets f-bomb slip during first press conference with Vancouver Canucks

The Vancouver Canucks officially announced the hiring of Bruce Boudreau as their new head coach on Monday. Boudreau brings to Vancouver a culture of winning, a larger-than-life personality, a self-admitted lack of style, and cursing. Lots and lots of cursing.

On Monday, during his first press conference with media, Boudreau stayed true to his Bruce brand by letting his first f-bomb slip.

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By Ian Oland 10 months ago

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Report: Bruce Boudreau to replace Travis Green as Vancouver Canucks head coach

Bruce Boudreau has filled his time as Hershey Cubs owner and NHL Network analyst. Now he is going back to what he does best: coaching!

The former Capitals head coach is going to be the next bench boss of the Vancouver Canucks, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.

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By Ian Oland 10 months ago

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The flooding from Hurricane Ida was so bad that Bruce Boudreau had fish swimming in his backyard

A week before training camp opened for the Hershey Cubs, Tropical Storm Ida rolled through Pennsylvania and dumped up to eight inches of rain across the state.

The flooding was so bad that Cubs owner and former Capitals head coach Bruce Boudreau had fish swimming in his backyard.

Boudreau is back in the area after founding the Cubs — a junior hockey team in the USPHL — that helps develop 17 to 20-year-old hockey players. His son Brady is a minority owner and an associate coach of the team.

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By Ian Oland 1 year ago

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