Randy Carlyle said he didn't see it coming. Bruce Boudreau left quietly, and then he got a gig on a late show called Hockey Night in Anaheim. Paul Maurice? Haven't heard much from him after he picked up a toe tag in Carolina.
The GMs for the Ducks, Capitals and Hurricanes made a lot of statements in the previous few weeks. Somewhere along the way, they buried the lead: You WILL be fired. SOON!
Mssrs Murray, McPhee and Rutherford, the first tune is for you.
And as for the Replacements, well Kirk Muller and Dale Hunter still are working out the lesson plan for their confused teams. Boudreau will have his hands full. Puck Daddy seems to think Boudreau is just what the Ducks need to get going. But if you read Robert Vollman's essay on the Ducks (why haven't you already?) in Pages 1 through 5 the Hockey Prospectus guide for 2011-12, you know that the Ducks have been pronounced as thin, running out of luck (an element that Vollman said put the Ducks in the playoffs last spring) and are under the delusion that they have quality goaltending.
Here's the in conclusion paragraph from Vollman.
"The power play is nice, the top-end talent is spectacular, but the efforts of a lot of very good players are being wasted because the team's only about 10 skaters deep," Jonathan Willis sums up nicely. Unless Charlie Sheen winds up in court with a funny judge who orders him to coach the Ducks, it is going to be a long, dull season in Anaheim.
I guess I'll let you decide if Boudreau is the next best thing to Charlie Sheen. The first test is tonight when the Flyers visit the formerly mighty men in jade and eggplant. That's a 10 pm Eastern start on Center Ice. In the meantime, here's a bet that the above Replacements can't carry a tune, so below is a little "Alex Chilton" from the straight-outta-Minnesota band, the Replacements, who managed to get it right most of the time.
See you later tonight.
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