Bruce, there he goes: Struggling Canucks fire head coach Boudreau, hire Tocchet
The team has added Adam Foote as an assistant coach and Sergei Gonchar as a defensive development coach.
The changes comes after the Edmonton Oilers handed Vancouver a 4-2 defeat Saturday, marking the Canucks’ third loss in a row and their ninth in the last 10 games. “I just wanted to savour looking at the stands because who knows if I’m ever going to get this chance again,” he said. “And just keep that in my mind and the memory, let it burn there forever.”
“Guys enjoy playing for Bruce and in this room, we feel like we let him down. We wanted to continue to try to do better for him and unfortunately, just too many losses pile up.” While Vancouver consistently found ways to score, the team also given up an average of 3.96 goals per game. The Canucks’ penalty kill has been a liability, operating at league-worst 65.9 per cent.“That’s all we really work,” he said after a 5-4 loss to Vegas in November. “We don’t work on too much offence because we’re scoring enough goals but we work on defending. And that obviously still needs more work.
“And it wasn’t. We kept going. We kept going,” Boudreau said. This last stretch was pretty tough. … The guys gave it their all. I’m so proud of them.”
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