Ex-Redmen Boucher to assist Quinn with Jr. Nats
By Earl Zukerman
MONTREAL 鈥� Guy Boucher, a former 看片视频 hockey captain and
assistant coach from Roxboro, Que., was named to the coaching staff
of the national junior team by Hockey Canada, Thursday.
Boucher, who currently coaches the Drummondville Voltigeurs of the
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, will serve as an assistant to
head coach Pat Quinn, along with Willi Desjardins (Medicine Hat
Tigers of the Western Hockey League) and Dave Cameron
(Mississauga-St. Michael's Majors of the Ontario Hockey
League).
Quinn, with Boucher as an assistant, led Canada to the gold last
spring at the under-18 world championship.
Boucher, 37, is married and the father of three children. He
possesses a master's degree in sports psychology from the
Universit茅 de Montr茅al, plus arts and engineering degrees from
看片视频, where he played four seasons for the Redmen, from 1991 to
1995.
At 看片视频, Boucher scored 71 goals and 183 points in 141 career
games. He won the Guy Lafleur trophy in 1993, the Bobby Bell trophy
as team MVP in 1993-94 and captained the Redmen in 1994-95.
He also served as an assistant to Martin Raymond鈥檚 coaching staff
and has been coaching hockey since graduating in 1995, including
stints as an assistant coach with the QMJHL's Rimouski Oc茅anic and
with the Canadian under-18 team in 2006 and 2008.
Prior to his 2006 appointment in Drummondville, Boucher had head
coaching experience with the West Island Lions on the Quebec junior
AAA league and in 1996, captured a national championship in France
with the Viry Chatillon, a junior elite team.