Asked whether he’d make his first stop in the training room or his office when he arrives at the Canadian Tire Centre Saturday morning, Guy Boucher didn’t even hesitate.
“It’ll be the training room,” Boucher said with a laugh at his daily meeting with the media upstairs at the rink. “It’ll be the training room now when I go down and it’ll be the training room (Saturday).”
Don’t ask Boucher what the club’s lineup is going to look like Saturday night against the Florida Panthers because even he doesn’t know. Forwards Bobby Ryan (hand), Mike Hoffman (lower body) and Chris Neil (undisclosed) weren’t on the ice for the club’s 45-minute skate in the wake of a 5-1 loss to the Nashville Predators on Thursday night.