Expectations are that Bruce Boudreau will be fired in the coming days and the veteran NHL bench boss treated Saturday’s game as if it were his last
Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau stood on the bench Saturday night, clapping for the crowd and trying to soak in a bittersweet moment.
“You never know if it’s the end,” he told reporters after the game, tears welling in his eyes. “So when you’ve been in it for almost 50 years – you know, the majority of your life – and now if it’s the end, I had to stay out there and look at the crowd and just try to say, ‘OK, try remember this moment type of thing.’”
After falling behind 3-0 midway through the second period Saturday, the Canucks clawed back two goals and looked to even the score late in the third.“We wanted to play right to the very end for ,” said Canucks captain Bo Horvat. “He coached every game like it was his last and, for us, we would have loved to pull one out there for him. But obviously it wasn’t good enough there.”
Andrei Kuzmenko and J.T. Miller replied for the Canucks, who fell to 1-9-0 in their last 10 outings. Quinn Hughes registered two helpers.The Canucks peppered Skinner with shots early, but it was the Oilers who opened the scoring 1:26 into the game.
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