Twitter Reaction: Senators fire head coach Guy Boucher

Pierre Dorion talks to the media about firing Guy Boucher and what he his looking for in a new head coach of the Ottawa Senators.

Thomas Ketko March 1, 2019, 11:20 AM

Ownership is the biggest competitive advantage in professional sports.

On Friday morning, the Ottawa Senators continued to be a case study in that theory, firing head coach Guy Boucher less than 24 hours after general manager Pierre Dorion told the Ottawa Sun that head coaching decisions would be made in the off-season.

Hockey fans wasted no time in taking to Twitter to share their thoughts. Here are some of the finest initial reactions:

Guy Boucher at this moment pic.twitter.com/0UOSb9Zuor

— shaneruns0630 (@ShaneD75) March 1, 2019

The first video is in of Guy Boucher discovering he just got fired. pic.twitter.com/OWCLsOyzOO

— Tim Kantel (@tkantel) March 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/poirieralex/status/1101504751873736704

They’re icing an AHL roster? What do they expect? This is the owner/gm’s fault, not Boucher’s.

— Woody (@bxwoodward) March 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/SCramer77/status/1101504974482075648

Live shot of Boucher exiting the building after getting the news pic.twitter.com/kcAbhsd0lH

— Wes (@LoucksWes14) March 1, 2019

Guy Boucher leaving Melnyks office this morning… pic.twitter.com/yRdWA8iAU7

— Reid Seaborg (@RSeaborg) March 1, 2019

I really don't understand firing Boucher with less than 20 games left and at the end of his contract. Unless it was a mercy firing to put him out of his misery

— Jess (@JBomb17) March 1, 2019

It should read Guy Boucher has been put out of his misery. #Sens #MelnykOut https://t.co/GRkBt0rGwH

— Chris M. Craig (@Agent_Double0) March 1, 2019

Honestly though they probably just added a good ten years onto Boucher's life expectancy https://t.co/HC7KgE9M2l

— marissa (@_marissaperkins) March 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/BrooksRoland82/status/1101504753551458305

But not all fans placed blame solely on management’s shoulders. Others took the opportunity to air one last set of grievances against Boucher’s coaching tactics.

He does look defeated… Maybe Dorian was right in axing him now. since the 3 were traded, the young guys got very little ice time after the call up, and have been mismanaged for a while under Boucher. Why bring the kids up and not play them https://t.co/o0ygneMmI9

— James (@jamesfowler11) March 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/SensFan550/status/1101506211365548032

As much as everyone likes to blame Melnyk for the Sens demise, I place a lot of the blame on Guy Boucher. His system gets old and predictable it happened with the Lightning and it happened with the Sens. Melnyk and Dorion did the right move by firing Boucher.

— Robert (@robert_zad) March 1, 2019

Guy Boucher is up there with the worst thing to happen in Ottawa sports

— Malcolm

Guy Boucher was a soldier, but time to bring in a coach to develop these prospects #GoSensGo

— Benjamin Milks (@brian5or6) March 1, 2019

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Really though, what Twitter mourned loudest was no longer having one of the most uniquely animated coaches behind an NHL bench.

Weird. They are casting for the new Bond movie this week and suddenly Guy Boucher fired.

— That Svechy Guy (@unklebyra) March 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/CapnCornelius/status/1101500884712751105

The Sens didnt fire Guy Boucher, after 2 years Guy determined James Bond wasn’t hiding in the Canadian capital……the hunt continues

— Chris Seltzer (@cseltzer2445) March 1, 2019

On the bright side, Guy Boucher can go back to his day job as über handsome Bond Villain "Dimitros le Sphinx" pic.twitter.com/p1fq4Rct0k

— Christopher Curtis (@titocurtis) March 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/NHLBlinn/status/1101505429312552960

I feel for Guy Boucher. One shot away from the Stanley Cup finals in ‘16 and now he’s canned mainly due to Melnyk. Won’t be long til he finds work. Badass guy, looks like a Bond villain. pic.twitter.com/bFzJ4Ms8lY

— Shane Darrow (@ShaneDarrow) March 1, 2019

Now we’ll never find out where Boucher got his scar from.

— Kat (@msconduct) March 1, 2019

Leafs should immediately hire Guy Boucher as an assistant coach. Hire a makes up person to accentuate his scar and make him the D-Zone coverage coach.

— Left Coast Leafs Podcast (@LeftCoastLeafs) March 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/lauryn_fl/status/1101505377965916161