Posts About "Bob Boughner"
Boughner Gives These Sharks Their Last Chance to Contend
August 27th, 2020 It’s no secret that the 2019-20 season didn’t go as planned for the San Jose Sharks. Starting out the season 16-17-2 under veteran head coach Peter DeBoer, general manager Doug Wilson relieved DeBoer of his duties and named assistant coach and former NHL defenseman Bob Boughner as interim head coach. The Sharks record under Boughner...
Sharks Need to Make Serious Changes Now
February 23rd, 2020 This season has not exactly gone as planned for the San Jose Sharks. Currently sitting 27th in the league and 13 points behind the wild card spot, it is safe to say that nobody would have predicted the season going this way back in October. Currently dealing with season-long injuries to key players and the recent firing of head coach...
Sharks Need More Than a Coaching Change
December 15th, 2019 Speculations and rumors as to the security of Pete DeBoer's head coaching job were wildly running rampant around the NHL following the terrible start the San Jose Sharks had to the 2019-20 season. After a winless start to December, Pete DeBoer was put on the chopping block. The tension finally boiled over and on Wednesday, Dec. 11,...
Sharks Beat Canucks 4-2 to Snap 6-Game Skid
December 15th, 2019 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tomas Hertl and Timo Meier scored, Aaron Dell made 33 saves and the San Jose Sharks snapped a season-high six-game losing streak by beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 on Saturday night. Hertl opened the scoring in the first and Meier ...
Sharks' Interim Bench Boss Boughner Brings Experience
December 14th, 2019 Pete DeBoer joined the lengthy list of coaches relieved of their duties this season, following the San Jose Sharks dropping five straight games. Sources revealed that DeBoer’s firing was purely hockey-related – a distinction that is now important to make after Bill Peters of the Calgary Flames and Jim Montgomery of the Dallas Stars...
Rangers Spoil Boughner's Debut with 6-3 Win over Sharks
December 13th, 2019 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mika Zibanejad scored the tying and go-ahead goals in less than five minutes during the third period and the New York Rangers spoiled interim coach Bob Boughner's debut with San Jose by beating the Sharks 6-3 on Thursday night. Artem...
Panthers Fire Boughner, Sabres Fire Housley
April 7th, 2019 The first day after the conclusion of the NHL regular season is always a rough one for coaches of teams that didn't qualify for postseason contention. While some are able to keep their position and work towards improving in the future, there are often those who don't get that same courtesy and who find themselves promptly out of a...
Boughner Has Panthers’ Stars Shooting
May 3rd, 2018 When the Florida Panthers took the ice for the 2017-18 National Hockey League season, it was immediately evident something was considerably different. The once-tentative Panthers played a much different – and much more effective – style under first-year head coach Bob Boughner, putting opposing teams on their heels with...
Gallant's Ghost Haunting Panthers
April 29th, 2018 Playoff hockey is the best time of year. For Florida Panther fans, though, watching the Vegas Golden Knights dominate the NHL has to be difficult. It is no secret the Panthers may have botched the expansion draft, but leaving former head coach Gerard Gallant on the side of the road following a loss in 2016 may have been their biggest...
Why the Florida Panthers Missed Playoffs
April 12th, 2018 The Florida Panthers were on the cusp of a playoff position since the all-star break, but with the 2017-18 regular season in the books, they came up one point short. While at one time only a point behind the New Jersey Devils, the Panthers found themselves five points back with four games to play. Perhaps the most disappointing part...
The Return of the Brent Burns Conundrum
January 11th, 2018 One challenge when considering San Jose Sharks defenseman Brent Burns is often this: where to begin? Burns has been all over the map. At times he’s been the best player in hockey, and at times he’s been one of the most problematic. He tends to go on long streaks of brilliance, but also long streaks of ineffectiveness. He can be a...
Desperate Panthers Clawing Into Contention
December 29th, 2017 It’s been a tough year for the Florida Panthers. 37 games into the 2017-18 National Hockey League season and the team has exactly 37 points, not nearly a good enough pace to hit the mid-90s, the general threshold for making the playoffs in the wild card era. That said, the team has won four in a row, and is 6-3-1 in their...
Florida Panthers’ Early-Season Struggles
November 10th, 2017 Okay, so we never expected them to challenge for the Presidents’ Trophy. Even the Atlantic Division title seemed to be a two-horse race between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs. But did anyone really expect the Florida Panthers to be this bad? At 4-8-2, they sit second-last in the National Hockey League, with only...
