Bruce Boudreau

Boudreau becomes the second coach that Vancouver has fired in the last 14 months.

Although the Canucks would see an uptick in performance the rest of the 2021-22 season, a poor start to the 2022-23 season put Boudreau's status as head coach in jeopardy, with Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford [openly acknowledging that he had been speaking to potential replacements](https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/canucks-rutherford-says-he-has-spoken-to-potential-coaching-candidates/). [NHL](/nhl/) defencemen and together provide a wide range of expertise on both sides of the puck. "So when you've been in it for almost 50 years -- you know, the majority of your life -- and now if it's the end, I had to stay out there and look at the crowd and just try to say, 'OK, try to remember this moment type of thing.'" "Rick Tocchet brings a wealth of knowledge to this team from both a coach and player perspective. "We appreciate their dedication and wish them nothing but the best moving forward. Adam Foote has been named assistant coach, while Sergei Gonchar has been hired as a defensive development coach.

The Vancouver Canucks finally fired head coach Bruce Boudreau on Sunday and replaced him with Rick Tocchet, a move so widely expected that it had become the ...

"I try not to read anything (the media) writes, try not to watch too much TV, other than the game itself, and just sort of stay in my own little zone and just do what we do to prepare for the games. "If we were playing in a real strong structure, it would make it easier for our defence to play,'' he told a Vancouver radio station on Nov. But right now, we don't have that strong structure, and we need to change the makeup of our defence.'' "That's all we really work,'' he said after a 5-4 loss to Vegas in November. "Guys enjoy playing for Bruce and in this room, we feel like we let him down. And a lot of time you do need a shake up and sometimes coaches do lose the room and I don't think this was the case here. ? I would call it a failure if we didn't succeed in our goals this year." "We don't work on too much offence because we're scoring enough goals but we work on defending. "I've played obviously a long time and I've gone through, I don't know, a handful of coaching changes. "Rick Tocchet brings a wealth of knowledge to this team from both a coach and player perspective," general manager Patrik Allvin said in a statement. to the tune of Tag Team's "Whoomp! "I just wanted to savour looking at the stands because who knows if I'm ever going to get this chance again," he said.

The Canucks kept Boudreau as head coach while rumors swirled that he would be fired for weeks. On Saturday night, Boudreau coached his final game with the team, ...

[Canucks](https://www.si.com/nhl/team/vancouver-canucks) coach Bruce Boudreau had been stuck in limbo as the team mulled his future. “It’s been tough the last couple weeks. “When you’ve been in it for almost 50 years, majority of you’re life, and if it’s the end? Boudreau was 50-40-13 in 103 games as the team’s coach, dating to last season. The Canucks kept Boudreau as head coach while rumors swirled that he would be fired for weeks. “You never know if it’s the end,” Boudreau said.

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He then spent the 2005.06 season as an assistant coach with the Coyotes, before moving on to the Tampa Bay Lightning as both an assistant and head coach for two seasons. Foote, 51, most recently served as head coach of the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League over parts of two seasons (2018.19 to 2019.20). Prior to his appointment in Arizona, Tocchet spent three seasons (2014.15 to 2016.17) as an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins, winning back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2016 and 2017. Gonchar, 48, has spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach for Russia’s national team, including at the 2022 Winter Olympics. The native of Toronto, Ontario appeared in 1,151 regular season games during his 19-year playing career with the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, and Columbus Blue Jackets. During his tenure in Arizona, Tocchet led the Coyotes to their first trip to the Stanley Cup Playoffs (2020) in eight years, when the team defeated the Nashville Predators in four games to advance from the Qualifying Round. Tocchet began his coaching career in 2002 when he was hired as an assistant coach by the Colorado Avalanche, a position he held for two seasons. Despite their struggles, on October 28 [Boudreau became the second fastest coach in NHL history to win 600 games](https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2022/10/28/bruce-boudreau-becomes-second-fastest-coach-in-nhl-history-to-win-600-games/). Rick Tocchet has been hired as the 21st Head Coach in franchise history. Tocchet, Foote, and Gonchar all bring a championship pedigree to the organization and we look forward to welcoming them to Vancouver.” “I thought it was over in November when certain things were said,” [Boudreau told the media on Saturday night](https://twitter.com/timandfriends/status/1617047065414012930). [The Canucks have been bad in 2022-23](https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2022/10/23/bruce-boudreau-vancouver-canucks-fml/).

Canucks President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford claims the team is retooling rather than rebuilding but in a year when a potentially generational player ...