Bye Bruce......

[Forty_Sixand2]

It's time. You have given us some great memories and got the team headed in the right direction, but it is time for a change.:smow:

 

[ritari330]

Won't happen

 

[dash]

GMGM seems to have BB's back (for now).

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

I bet he is out by New Years.

 

[ritari330]

I would take that bet. GMGM doesn't like making changes that aren't roster changes. There is enough tallent to not lose however many striaght for him to get fired.

 

[puckhead]

this is a good read: Capitals need to solve Ovechkin | Hockey | CBC Sports

Firing Boudreau is craziness. He's won 70 per cent of his games since arriving in Washington. He revived a flatlining franchise. His peers will tell you he's got a good in-game feel. He's open to different concepts and ideas -- going to the trap last season, the first time in his career he coached it.

He's fulfilling McPhee's wish of being harder on his players when necessary. The whole point of adding as much depth as they did was to say, "Look, if someone's not going hard, they're not going on the ice." When he kept Ovechkin on the bench in that now-infamous game against Anaheim, the players he chose scored the tying goal. And Ovechkin set up the winner. As McPhee said in our pre-game Inside Hockey Feature, "That's coaching."

Plus, who are you going to find that's better?

 

[pixburgher66]

Sometimes though, I don't think it's necessarily because a coach is bad that they'll lose their job. Sometimes it's just because the players have gotten so used to that one coach, and they've had limited success with him (postseason at least), that they just...I dunno, come out against him. It's not always warranted, but sometimes it's what the team needs. There are capable people that could be put in the position that would likely work for the Caps, but I also don't think it's the best option for them. There's a lot of high profile talent in that room, and not every guy could handle it...so that has to be taken into account.

 

[flyersfan4706]

I bet he is out by New Years.

Said the Flyers would can Stevens before the Classic two years ago.

It worked, I bet Bruce will be gone too.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

this is a good read: Capitals need to solve Ovechkin | Hockey | CBC Sports

Firing Boudreau is craziness. He's won 70 per cent of his games since arriving in Washington. He revived a flatlining franchise. His peers will tell you he's got a good in-game feel. He's open to different concepts and ideas -- going to the trap last season, the first time in his career he coached it.

He's fulfilling McPhee's wish of being harder on his players when necessary. The whole point of adding as much depth as they did was to say, "Look, if someone's not going hard, they're not going on the ice." When he kept Ovechkin on the bench in that now-infamous game against Anaheim, the players he chose scored the tying goal. And Ovechkin set up the winner. As McPhee said in our pre-game Inside Hockey Feature, "That's coaching."

Plus, who are you going to find that's better?

Norv Turner has won a lot of games as well. So did Ozzie Guillen. So have a lot of coaches. As consistently good as he has been in the regular season, he has been consistently bad in the playoffs, when it matters most. I have paid close attention to the past few games and this guy has lost the team.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

this is a good read: Capitals need to solve Ovechkin | Hockey | CBC Sports

Firing Boudreau is craziness. He's won 70 per cent of his games since arriving in Washington. He revived a flatlining franchise. His peers will tell you he's got a good in-game feel. He's open to different concepts and ideas -- going to the trap last season, the first time in his career he coached it.

He's fulfilling McPhee's wish of being harder on his players when necessary. The whole point of adding as much depth as they did was to say, "Look, if someone's not going hard, they're not going on the ice." When he kept Ovechkin on the bench in that now-infamous game against Anaheim, the players he chose scored the tying goal. And Ovechkin set up the winner. As McPhee said in our pre-game Inside Hockey Feature, "That's coaching."

Plus, who are you going to find that's better?

I don't think any of that matters when you've got a superstar not producing, you just bombed hard in a game, and you've got a team with a reputation for not getting it done in the postseason. (at least in today's NHL)

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

Trade you one Bruce for one Paul.
Straight up.

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

this is a good read: Capitals need to solve Ovechkin | Hockey | CBC Sports

Firing Boudreau is craziness. He's won 70 per cent of his games since arriving in Washington. He revived a flatlining franchise. His peers will tell you he's got a good in-game feel. He's open to different concepts and ideas -- going to the trap last season, the first time in his career he coached it.

He's fulfilling McPhee's wish of being harder on his players when necessary. The whole point of adding as much depth as they did was to say, "Look, if someone's not going hard, they're not going on the ice." When he kept Ovechkin on the bench in that now-infamous game against Anaheim, the players he chose scored the tying goal. And Ovechkin set up the winner. As McPhee said in our pre-game Inside Hockey Feature, "That's coaching."

Plus, who are you going to find that's better?

I don't care what his winning percentage is. Ovechkin has tuned him out. He's not having fun playing the game. It's time for the head coach to go.

 

[puckhead]

I don't care what his winning percentage is. Ovechkin has tuned him out. He's not having fun playing the game. It's time for the head coach to go.

so they just trade coaches until they find one that Alex likes?
I guess they've already handed OV the keys to the team, but to me he's the one that needs to man up and play the game. I haven't watched many Caps games, but he looked absolutely disinterested in the Leafs game on Saturday. Tough to lay that entirely at Boudreau's feet.

If Bruce has lost the room, then often that's irreversible. I watched it happen here with Crawford.
as the article mentions... who's available that's an upgrade, or at least close to lateral?
Give Guy Carbonneau a try? Ted Nolan? someone from the minors (ie. Caps system), or wait for one of the other schmucks to get canned (Arneil, Sutter, Maurice, Sacco?). tough call.

 

[ritari330]

If someone were to replace Bruce, it'd most likely be Mark French of the Hershey Bears. Atleast that's what I think would happen.

In other Caps' news, defensive prospect Dmitry Orlov got called up today.

 

[quoipourquoi]

If someone were to replace Bruce, it'd most likely be Mark French of the Hershey Bears.

Speaking of Hershey Bears, if Bob Hartley can get fired after four years with a 64% winning percentage and never finishing worse than Game 7 of the Conference Finals, then I'd say that Bruce Boudreau is fair game. He probably should've been canned when he lost the team last December.

 

[evolver115]

PuckDaddy weighs in:

The Capitals rift: Boudreau wants Ovechkin to change, he refuses - Puck Daddy - NHLBlog - Yahoo! Sports

Boudreau moved Ovechkin to the wall on the power play, and Ovechkin wants to play the point. Keep in mind an ineffective power play in key situations has torpedoed the Capitals in recent postseasons.

"Boudreau and his coaching staff have implored Ovechkin to change his strategy on the attack for more than a year. Go wide instead of cutting to the middle, they've told him. Use teammates instead of squeezing off low-percentage shots. Their words, though, have fallen on deaf ears."

Via El-Brashir: "Boudreau and his staff have begged Ovechkin to be more responsible in the defensive end, yet he still routinely floats in Washington's zone and leaves it prematurely." This has led to a minus-6 thus far, worst on the team. It's never a good sign when your own fans feign amazement that you're back-checking; yet this happens far too often for Ovechkin.

 

[Automattic]

Bruce should just say "Hey Alex, pretend I'm Scotty and you're Stevie!"

 

[ritari330]

Boudreau moved Ovechkin to the wall on the power play, and Ovechkin wants to play the point. Keep in mind an ineffective power play in key situations has torpedoed the Capitals in recent postseasons.

This point is kinda unfair to make. He only wants to play the point because Green is injured and anyone else they've tried on the point really hasn't helped (10.something% without green in the lineup and 25+% with him in the lineup.

 

[4thstreet]

so they just trade coaches until they find one that Alex likes?
I guess they've already handed OV the keys to the team, but to me he's the one that needs to man up and play the game. I haven't watched many Caps games, but he looked absolutely disinterested in the Leafs game on Saturday. Tough to lay that entirely at Boudreau's feet.

If Bruce has lost the room, then often that's irreversible. I watched it happen here with Crawford.
as the article mentions... who's available that's an upgrade, or at least close to lateral?
Give Guy Carbonneau a try? Ted Nolan? someone from the minors (ie. Caps system), or wait for one of the other schmucks to get canned (Arneil, Sutter, Maurice, Sacco?). tough call.

I totally agree.
OV and Semin get to go along underacheiving and losing the respect of teammates and it's all Boudreau's fault.

Watch how fast Boudreau gets scooped up by another team if the Caps decide to let him go.

If up to me I'd take the C off of the undeserving OV and cut his ice time till he starts playing with some damn heart.

 

[pixburgher66]

I totally agree.
OV and Semin get to go along underacheiving and losing the respect of teammates and it's all Boudreau's fault.

Watch how fast Boudreau gets scooped up by another team if the Caps decide to let him go.

If up to me I'd take the C off of the undeserving OV and cut his ice time till he starts playing with some damn heart.

According to the Puck Daddy review on a Wash. Post article his ice time is hanging around 18 minutes. That's a decent slash for a superstar player. Honestly that article made some pretty decent points that show BB is trying to mold him into a great well-rounded player, and it sort of shocks me how OV is ignoring it (according to the article and assumptions that is).