{"id":44910,"date":"2019-04-07T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=44910"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:33:50","slug":"florida-panthers-fire-coach-bob-boughner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/04\/07\/florida-panthers-fire-coach-bob-boughner\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers Fire Coach Bob Boughner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Panthers<\/a> have announced that it has fired coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/boughbo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob Boughner<\/a><\/strong>. General manager <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/talloda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dale Tallon<\/a><\/strong> made the announcement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlaPanthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FlaPanthers<\/a> Relieve Head Coach Bob Boughner of Duties<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/biW1j40uI3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/biW1j40uI3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gtn1GKE7UF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/gtn1GKE7UF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; x &#8211; Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1114901332656316416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Panthers Fire Coach Bob Boughner<\/h1>\n<p>The Florida Panthers have parted ways with head coach Bob Boughner.\u00a0This season, the team finished with a record of 36 wins, 32 losses and 14 overtime losses. Florida ended up in fifth place in the Atlantic Division. They missed out on the playoffs by 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Boughner wrapped up his second season in charge with the Panthers. His best season was in 2017-18 when Florida placed fourth in the division with a mark of 43-30-8. Florida missed the playoffs by one point that season. The Panthers missed the post-season in both years Boughner was behind the bench.<\/p>\n<p>He does have success at the junior hockey level as he guided the Windsor Spifires to back-to-back OHL titles and Memorial Cups in the 2009 and 2010 seasons. The 48-year-old was also a veteran NHL defenceman that played 630 games in 10 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach <strong>Paul McFarland<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/article228944204.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was also relieved of his duties<\/a> along with Boughner. Tallon called it &#8220;a tough decision&#8221; and says the team needs a coach with a &#8220;Stanley Cup pedigree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Team\u2019s Future<\/h2>\n<p>Florida have missed the post-season in 16 of their last 18 seasons. The team will be on its fourth head coach since 2016.<strong> Peter DeBoer<\/strong> was the last coach to make it through two seasons with the club in 2008-2011.<\/p>\n<p>The team has shown flashes of being an up-and-coming squad. There is plenty of young talent in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/huberjo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Huberdeau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/barkoal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aleksander Barkov<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ekblaaa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Ekblad<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=hoffmmi02,hoffmmi01&amp;search=Mike+Hoffman&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Hoffman<\/a><\/strong> among others. There may be uncertainty in the goalie spot as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/luongro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roberto Luongo<\/a><\/strong> is uncertain about his future. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reimeja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Reimer<\/a><\/strong> did the lion&#8217;s share of the work in net when Luongo was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>However, Florida does have a chance at a quick turnaround with the aforementioned players and one of the better general managers in Tallon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/10\/Global.jpg\" alt=\"\">Florida Panthers coach Bob Boughner reacts during the team&#8217;s press conference on October 28, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland, ahead of the ice hockey NHL Global Series matches against Winnipeg Jets. (Photo by Jussi Nukari \/ Lehtikuva \/ AFP) \/ Finland OUT (Photo credit should read JUSSI NUKARI\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers have announced that it has fired coach Bob Boughner. General manager Dale Tallon made the announcement on Sunday. #FlaPanthers Relieve Head Coach Bob Boughner of Duties \u00bb https:\/\/t.co\/biW1j40uI3 pic.twitter.com\/gtn1GKE7UF &mdash; x &#8211; Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) April 7, 2019 Panthers Fire Coach Bob Boughner The Florida Panthers have parted ways with head coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":37507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[346,1083,1756,1008,106,5738,306,771,2569,955,409],"class_list":["post-44910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-panthers","category-news","tag-aaron-ekblad","tag-aleksander-barkov","tag-bob-boughner","tag-dale-tallon","tag-florida-panthers","tag-hockey-news","tag-jonathan-huberdeau","tag-mike-hoffman","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-roberto-luongo"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}