Bruce Boudreau

Bruce Allan Boudreau ( born January 9, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player (Center) and current coach, who from 1977 to 1984 for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League for the Minnesota Fighting Saints played in the World Hockey Association and for the ECD Iserlohn in the hockey league. Since December 2011 he has been head coach of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League.

  • 3.1 Personal Awards

Career

As a player

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

Although he would have preferred to remain in Toronto, Boudreau was no agreement with the Maple Leafs and played in the 1975/76 season for the Minnesota Fighting Saints of the World Hockey Association. A year later he was able to reach an agreement with Toronto, but next 15 NHL inserts in the 1976/77 season he played mostly with the Dallas Blackhawks in the Central Hockey League. In the following years he commuted between NHL and farm team, those were the meantime, 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 nominated for four playoff games in the squad of the Maple Leafs. Here, he scored a goal.

The 1984/85 season he shared between the Baltimore Skipjacks in the AHL and the ECD Iserlohn in Germany's Bundesliga. This was followed by an offer from the NHL by the Chicago Blackhawks, but here he was mostly in the AHL farm team in Nova Scotia Oilers. His best season in the AHL, he played 1987/88 at the Springfield Indians, for whom he was the best scorer with 116 points in the league. More stations to 1992 were the AHL teams in the Newmarket Saints and Adirondack Red Wings in the International Hockey League and the Phoenix Roadrunners and Fort Wayne Komets.

As a coach

Already in Fort Wayne, he had also taken over the post of assistant coach as a player. In 1994, he led the team in the final series, however, were lost. After a year as 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 had done in his third year, the team on winning the Kelly Cup, joined the AHL Lowell Lock Monsters of the. After two years, he took over the Manchester Monarchs before the Hershey Bears coached from 2005. In the 2005/06 season he led the team to the Calder Cup. During the season 2007/ 08 the Washington Capitals promoted him from the farm team coach in Hershey head coach of their NHL teams at the Glen Hanlon had the space for failure to evacuate.

2009 awarded him the American Hockey League for his contributions as a player and coach with the inclusion in 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 previously won by 15 games, only five. A few days later pledged him the Anaheim Ducks as head coach after the Californians had given birth Randy Carlyle from his duties. Boudreau was after shortened due to a lockout discharged season 2012/ 13 for the Jack Adams Award - this he had won once in 2008 - nominated, which is awarded annually to those coaches in the National Hockey League who has contributed most to the success of his team. The nomination justified by the fact that the Californians in 2013 for the second time in its history the Pacific Division won and completed the most successful regular season of their history; with 66 points in 48 matches this respect they finished the league in third.

Statistics

Sporting successes

  • Memorial Cup: 1973 and 1975
  • Calder Cup: 1992 as a player; 2006 as a coach
  • Kelly Cup: 1999 as manager

Personal Awards

NHL Entry Draft 1975 NHL Amateur Draft Johnstown Jets Phoenix Roadrunners (IHL) Eishockey-Bundesliga 1975–76 WHA season 1976–77 NHL season Dallas Black Hawks Farmteam Cincinnati Tigers (ice hockey) 1982–83 NHL season 1984–85 ice hockey Bundesliga season Iserlohn Roosters International Hockey League (1945–2001) 2005–06 AHL season 2007–08 NHL season 2012–13 NHL season 2013–14 NHL season Frederik Andersen Jonas Hiller Bryan Allen (ice hockey) Cam Fowler Hampus Lindholm Ben Lovejoy Luca Sbisa Andrew Cogliano Tim Jackman Patrick Maroon Kyle Palmieri Mathieu Perreault Corey Perry Jakob Silfverberg Scott Niedermayer Bob Murray (ice hockey, born 1954) Sports franchising Claude Julien (ice hockey) Ted Nolan Bob Hartley Kirk Muller Patrick Roy Todd Richards (ice hockey) Lindy Ruff Mike Babcock Darryl Sutter Mike Yeo Michel Therrien Barry Trotz Jack Capuano Alain Vigneault Paul MacLean (ice hockey) Craig Berube Dave Tippett Dan Bylsma Ken Hitchcock Todd McLellan John Tortorella Adam Oates Paul Maurice Craig Hartsburg Guy Charron Bryan Murray (ice hockey) Jack Ferreira Pierre Gauthier Al Coates (ice hockey) Brian Burke (ice hockey) Fred Shero Bob Pulford Don Cherry Scotty Bowman Bobby Kromm Al Arbour Pat Quinn (ice hockey) Red Berenson Tom Watt Orval Tessier Mike Keenan Glen Sather Jacques Demers Pat Burns Bob Murdoch (ice hockey, born 1946) Brian Sutter Marc Crawford Jacques Martin (ice hockey) Bill Barber Bobby Francis Integrated Authority File
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