Bruce Boudreau could see the writing on the wall. 'I think I’m smart enough to look around me and see what was going on.' The longtime NHL coach spoke about his final days as the Canucks head coach in an exclusive interview with RussoHockey:
“The thing that kept driving me was that you’ve got to go to work, do your job, do it the same way and with the same passion every day,” Boudreau said. “And since I’ve always been a dreamer and a believer, I believed that, ‘OK, if we could just sneak it out, something good can happen.’ And so even though in the back of my mind you knew that something was imminent, you never wanted to believe it fully.
Asked about the stress on his face during the third, Boudreau said, “I was pretty sure that it was my last period. Nobody had said anything, but in my heart, I was pretty sure.
In 103 games, Boudreau’s .549 points percentage ranks fourth in Canucks history. For coaches with 500 or more regular-season games, his .626 points percentage ranks fourth inHe felt the Canucks became a “really, really good team” and got the “crowd base into it” by the end of last season. This season was a chore, but he felt the Canucks were making strides until a team that was one win above .500 on Dec. 27 lost 10 of its next 12 games.
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