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    Default Bruce Boudreau fired; replaced by Dale Hunter

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    Now it's your turn, Dean.

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    Maybe Dale can light a fire under AO's ass.

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    Bruce Boudreau to the Kings?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vrankol View Post
    Bruce Boudreau to the Kings?
    Oh please please please........

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    This move stunned me. If they don't do well from here on out, I wouldn't be surprised if GMGM is next.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jt View Post
    This move stunned me. If they don't do well from here on out, I wouldn't be surprised if GMGM is next.
    really? they should have fired him 2 years ago,

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    What stunned me was GMGM doing it at all. He has always said that it's not BB - period - and the whole accountability thing was with his AND THE PLAYERS' ok...so it will be very interesting to hear him at the press conference today.

    The ironic thing is that when BB finally did what Terry Murray has been doing for 4 yrs (make everyone play two-way hockey), the players (who IMO are far from being the types who lead teams to Cup wins) won the fight. That's something I will ALWAYS admire Jay Feaster and Bill Davidson for...saying to the star player and coach that it's up to them to figure it out because neither one was going anywhere (The Hockey News: Jay Feaster's Blog: Jay Feaster's Blog: Taking control in Tampa).

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    Live blog: McPhee’s news conference on firing Bruce Boudreau, hiring Dale Hunter - Capitals Insider - The Washington Post

    Live blog: McPhee’s news conference on firing Bruce Boudreau, hiring Dale Hunter

    By Lindsay Applebaum

    We’ll provide live updates of Capitals General Manager George McPhee’s news conference, scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Updates are below in reverse chronological order:

    — That’s all for now. We’ll have much more today on all things Caps, so keep checking back. Tom Boswell is chatting now.

    — McPhee said he was considering hiring Hunter for about a week now.

    — Will Alex Ovechkin be stripped of the captaincy? “That’s not gonna happen.”

    — Has McPhee talked to Ovechkin about the coaching change? “No, I’ve talked to the team.”

    — On Boudreau seemingly losing the room: “Sometimes it just wears out. ... I’ve seen it before with other coaches. Sometimes like having the same teacher for five years... So you make the change and hope that a new voice and a new way of doing things and a new focus gets the best out of these players.”

    — Hunter will need to focus on defense, McPhee says. “We’re just giving up too many goals.”

    — Boudreau and McPhee met at 6:15 a.m. “He said the right things and he made me feel better about the decision.”

    — McPhee said coaches have a short shelf life and it has to be accepted. “The league is so competitive that it requires a lot... Bruce emptied the tank, he gave it everything, he pushed every button he could push.”

    — Dale Hunter “knows two things, farming and hockey. And he’s really good at both.” Ooookay.

    — “We’ve talked consistently over 12 years; I was hoping that one day Dale would coach this team. Timing’s everything and the time is right now.” Hunter only wanted to coach the Capitals — as head coach, according to McPhee.

    — On Dale Hunter, who played in the NHL for 19 years: “That guy played the same way every night, and it was hard... everyone who played with him revered him.”

    — “I don’t think this had anything to do with Alex Ovechkin,” McPhee said. It was that the team wasn’t playing well as a whole.

    — McPhee said he didn’t like some things he saw in training camp in the preseason but after the Capitals’ 7-0 start, he held off.

    — McPhee says no players were consulted. “I don’t take that kind of input from players. We’ve never done that and we never will do that.”

    —McPhee: “The reason for the change was we werent winning, obviously, and this wasn’t a slump. You can ride out slumps. This was simply a case of the players were no longer responding to Bruce.

    “Bruce did a terriffic job here... but when the players aren’t responding you have to make a change.”

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    Now hopefully Hunter is smart enough to strip the "C" off that prima donna.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NastiMarvasti View Post
    Now hopefully Hunter is smart enough to strip the "C" off that prima donna.
    Or he could remove it another way...


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