Coach Boudreau's Playing Statistics
Bruce Boudreau, 53, became the 14th head coach in Washington Capitals history when he was named to the position on an interim basis on November 22, 2007. He was named head coach on Dec. 26, 2007. His tremendously successful first season behind the bench in Washington landed the Capitals a playoff berth and earned Boudreau the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s coach of the year.
Boudreau led the Capitals on a remarkable comeback from 30th in the NHL when he took over on Thanksgiving Day to the Southeast Division championship. His record of 37-17-7 would be good for a 109-point pace in the course of a full season. The Capitals posted 17 come-from-behind victories under Boudreau and posted a 20-6-7 record in games decided by one goal. Boudreau was the fastest coach in club history to reach 20 wins (34 games) and 30 wins (53 games) and the first coach in NHL history to lead his team from 14th place at midseason to a playoff berth. It marked the 10th straight season that Boudreau has led his team to the playoffs.
Boudreau has coached championship teams in the American Hockey League (AHL) and the ECHL and has coached more than 1,000 games in the minor leagues. He led the Hershey Bears, Washington’s AHL affiliate, to the Eastern Conference championship and the Calder Cup finals in each of his first two years in Hershey, winning the Calder Cup in 2006. Boudreau compiled a 103-45-11-16 record with the Bears (a .666 winning percentage), including an AHL-best 51-17-6-6 record (.713) last season. Seven current members of the Capitals played for Boudreau with the Bears.
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Boudreau compiled a 340-216-56-43 record in nine seasons as an AHL head coach. He spent four years with the Manchester Monarchs and two years with the Lowell Lock Monsters before joining the Bears. Before ascending to the AHL, he was the head coach and director of hockey operations for the Mississippi Sea Wolves (ECHL), where he won the 1999 Kelly Cup championship.
After making his head-coaching debut in the Colonial Hockey League with the Muskegon Fury in 1992-93, Boudreau took over the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League (IHL) in 1993-94. The Komets advanced to the Turner Cup finals his first season at the controls, and Boudreau was named the 1993-94 IHL coach of the year.
Boudreau played parts of eight seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks, recording 70 points in 141 NHL games. A third-round pick of the Leafs in the 1975 NHL draft, Boudreau enjoyed one of the best seasons ever by a Canadian junior player during 1974-75. He picked up 165 points for the Toronto Marlboros, a Canadian Hockey League record until Wayne Gretzky surpassed the mark during the 1977-78 season.
An outstanding AHL player, Boudreau ranks 11th all-time in scoring in league history with 316 goals and 799 points. No AHL player in the 1980s notched more points than Boudreau, as he played for the New Brunswick Hawks, Baltimore Skipjacks, Nova Scotia Oilers, Springfield Indians and Newmarket Saints during that time. He won the 1987-88 John B. Sollenberger Trophy for leading the league in scoring and was also a member of the 1992 Calder Cup champion Adirondack Red Wings.
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