OTTAWA — This time around in the Eastern Conference final, and this being Ottawa, Guy Boucher has given his players plenty of time to stop and smell the tulips.
A full Senators practice has been rare in these playoffs. Even back to the past month of the regular season, you can count the number of non-game-day workouts on one hand.
It wasn’t always that way with Boucher, though.
Clearly, he learned a thing or two from his first NHL coaching gig with the Tampa Bay Lightning, when he was sometimes criticized for pushing his players too hard.