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Four days after his Ottawa Senators boss said his job would be evaluated at the end of the NHL season, Guy Boucher was fired as the team’s head coach.
Senators general manager Pierre Dorion was Boucher’s boss. Dorion evidently changed his mind after Ottawa lost a home game to the lowly Edmonton Oilers.
Never mind that Dorion has traded away Ottawa’s best players and somehow believes his team should be better. This is a franchise that has sunk badly since nearly reaching the Stanley Cup final in 2017. Only six players remain from that team. Meanwhile, Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has berated Ottawa and its fans while trying to get a new arena.
The franchise was respectable when Bryan Murray was its general manager. Murray cycled through head coaches, but he made solid hockey decisions that kept the unpopular Melnyk out of the spotlight.
Murray, one of the most astute people in the hockey world, unfortunately died two years ago. The Senators haven’t been the same without him.