{"id":68673,"date":"2020-02-14T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=68673"},"modified":"2020-02-14T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T20:14:35","slug":"minnesota-wild-fire-head-coach-bruce-boudreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/02\/14\/minnesota-wild-fire-head-coach-bruce-boudreau\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Fire Head Coach Bruce Boudreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> will be making a coaching change. The team has fired <strong>Bruce Boudreau<\/strong> replacing him with assistant coach <strong>Dean Evason<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a> coach Bruce Boudreau was fired this morning at TRIA by GM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gueribi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Guerin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussoHockey\/status\/1228348489941295106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bruce Boudreau Fired By The Wild<\/h2>\n<p>While this news may be surprising to some around the league, those close to the team could see this coming. Over their last 10 games, Wild are 6-3-1 and three points out of a wild-card spot. However, the team has not been very inconsistent this season. Under Boudreau, this season Minnesota has a record of 27-23-7. Boudreau becomes the eight coaching causality of the season. He joins the likes of <strong>Gerard Gallant, Mike Babcock,<\/strong> and <strong>Peter Laviolette<\/strong> as potential UFA coaches this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>After a slow start to the season in October, the Wild had a record of 23-14-17 since November 1st. However, general manager <strong>Bill Guerin<\/strong> had seen enough after another blown lead in the third period to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Rangers<\/a> on Thursday night. Guerin wants his team competing for a playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>Boudreau has been the head coach of the Wild for the past four seasons after he was hired prior to the 2016-17 season. His overall record with the Wild was 158-110-35. And while the Wild made the playoffs under Boudreau in his first two seasons as head coach, they could not get out of the first round.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Boudreau has been fired either. He was hired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> two days after he was fired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a> in 2011, and the Wild hired him 7 days after he was fired by the Ducks in 2016. With that kind of track record, it is just a matter of time before he lands another coaching position.<\/p>\n<h3>Going Forward<\/h3>\n<p>In the meantime, the Wild have named assistant head <strong>Dean Evason<\/strong> as the interim head coach. A career assistant coach with the Capitals and Wild, this will be his first crack to be a head coach on the NHL. Evason has experience as a head coach in the AHL. Beginning in 2012 with the Milwaukee Admirals, Evason spent seasons as the head coach, becoming the team second-winningest coach in team history. The Wild are hoping a change at the coaching position will be what is necessary to get them into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"e1cV58kUTnZouZ9PsoGqng\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/628840762\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'e1cV58kUTnZouZ9PsoGqng',sig:'1rUnasnetZSpTqCAD5YkHbrt2g8O9lozu4sWVB5ZcUM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'628840762',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild will be making a coaching change. The team has fired Bruce Boudreau replacing him with assistant coach Dean Evason. BREAKING: #mnwild coach Bruce Boudreau was fired this morning at TRIA by GM Bill Guerin \u2014 Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) February 14, 2020 Bruce Boudreau Fired By The Wild While this news may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3130,"featured_media":68676,"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":[34,30],"tags":[416,4634,221,955],"class_list":["post-68673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wild","tag-bruce-boudreau","tag-dean-evason","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68673","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\/3130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}