Former Sea Wolves Coach Boudreau Wins Jack Adams Award
Published on June 13, 2008 under ECHL (ECHL)
Mississippi Sea Wolves News Release
BILOXI, MS - Former Mississippi Sea Wolves head coach Bruce Boudreau was named the winner of the 2008 Jack Adams Award, awarded annually to the National Hockey League's Coach of they Year as voted on by the National Hockey League Broadcasters' Association yesterday at the NHL Awards at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.
Boudreau was named head coach of the Washington Capitals on November 22 with the Caps holding on to a 6-14-1 record at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings. Over the remainder of the season, he led his team to a 37-17-7 (.664) mark, including seven consecutive victories to close the season and the Southeast Division title.
A native of Toronto, Boudreau coached the Sea Wolves for the team's first three seasons in the ECHL, leading the team to the playoffs in their first season of existence and to the Kelly Cup Championship in 1998-99. In three years in Mississippi, Boudreau was 109-75-26 (.578) in the regular season and held a 14-7 record in the Kelly Cup Playoffs.
Prior to joining the Sea Wolves, Boudreau coached the Muskegon Fury of the Colonial Hockey League in 1992-93, the Fort Wayne Komets of the original International Hockey League in 1993-94 and 1994-95, and was as assistant coach of the San Francisco Spiders of the IHL in 1995-96.
Following his three seasons in Mississippi, Boudreau coached the American Hockey League's Manchester Monarchs for four seasons, leading the club to the AHL's best record in 2004-05. The following season, he coached the Hershey Bears to the ninth Calder Cup Championship in team history, and would reach the finals with Hershey again in 2006-07.
As a player, Boudreau appeared in 141 NHL games over parts of eight seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks and 30 World Hockey Association games with the Minnesota Fighting Saints in 1975-76. Selected in the third round (42nd overall) by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft, Boudreau also made stops as a player with New Brunswick, St. Catharines, Baltimore, Nova Scotia, Springfield, Newmarket, and Adirondack in the American Hockey League, Dallas and Cincinnati in the Central Hockey League, Phoenix and Fort Wayne in the IHL, and Johnstown of the North American Hockey League.
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