The third-year Ottawa Senators bench boss was coming off a catastrophic campaign, following the team’s Cinderella run to the 2017 Eastern Conference Final, and the Senators were clearly poised for another tough year come October.
Then, with 18 games left in the season, the shoe finally dropped, and Boucher was unceremoniously fired. While Marc Crawford has taken over the job on an interim basis, the Sens are supposedly considering outside candidates as well. While everything the organization says should be taken with a heaping helping of salt, rumours have begun swirling about who Pierre Dorion and Co.