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We’re going over some comments made by Vancouver Canucks former head coach Bruce Boudreau on how he was pressured to play Quinn Hughes at centre last year.
Twitter Video: https://twitter.com/NHLNetwork/status/1745973943117164930
Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/canucks/comments/195bjjg/nhl_network_on_instagram_bruce_boudreau_revealed/
This video is taking place after the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2023 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Chicago Blackhawks, Connor Bedard
2nd) Anaheim Ducks, Leo Carlsson
3rd) Columbus Blue Jackets, Adam Fantilli
4th) San Jose Sharks, Will Smith
5th) Montreal Canadiens, David Reinbacher
6th) Arizona Coyotes, Dmitri Simashev
7th) Philadelphia Flyers, Matvei Michkov
8th) Washington Capitals, Ryan Leonard
9th) Detroit Red Wings, Nate Danielson
10th) St. Louis Blues, Dalibor Dvorsky
11th) Vancouver Canucks, Tom Willander
12th) Arizona Coyotes (from Ottawa Senators), Daniil But
13th) Buffalo Sabres, Zach Benson
14th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Brayden Yager
15th) Nashville Predators, Matthew Wood
16th) Calgary Flames, Samuel Honzek
17th) Detroit Red Wings (from New York Islanders via Vancouver Canucks), Axel Sandin Pellikka
18th) Winnipeg Jets, Colby Barlow
19th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Oliver Moore
20th) Seattle Kraken, Eduard Sale
21st) Minnesota Wild, Charlie Stramel
22nd) Philadelphia Flyers (from Los Angeles Kings via Columbus Blue Jackets), Oliver Bonk
23rd) New York Rangers, Gabe Perreault
24th) Nashville Predators (from Edmonton Oilers), Tanner Molendyk
25th) St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Otto Stenberg
26th) San Jose Sharks (from New Jersey Devils), Quentin Musty
27th) Colorado Avalanche, Calum Ritchie
28th) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Boston Bruins via Washington Capitals), Easton Cowan
29th) St. Louis Blues (from Dallas Stars via New York Rangers), Theo Lindstein
30th) Carolina Hurricanes, Bradley Nadeau
31st) Colorado Avalanche (from Florida Panthers via Montreal Canadiens), Mikhail Gulyayev
32nd) Vegas Golden Knights, David Edstrom
This video is also taking place after 2023 NHL Season, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Florida Panthers in the Finals.
Quinn Hughes was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2018 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:
1st – Buffalo Sabres, Rasmus Dahlin
2nd – Carolina Hurricanes, Andrei Svechnikov
3rd – Montreal Canadiens, Jesperi Kotkaniemi
4th – Ottawa Senators, Brady Tkachuk
5th – Arizona Coyotes, Barrett Hayton
6th – Detroit Red Wings, Filip Zadina
7th – Vancouver Canucks, Quinn Hughes
8th – Chicago Blackhawks, Adam Boqvist
9th – New York Rangers, Vitali Kravtsov
10th – Edmonton Oilers, Evan Bouchard
11th – New York Islanders, Oliver Wahlstrom
12th – New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames), Noah Dobson
13th – Dallas Stars, Ty Dellandrea
14th – Philadelphia Flyers (from St. Louis Blues), Joel Farabee
15th – Florida Panthers, Grigori Denisenko
16th – Colorado Avalanche, Martin Kaut
17th – New Jersey Devils, Ty Smith
18th – Columbus Blue Jackets, Liam Foudy
19th – Philadelphia Flyers, Jay O’Brien
20th – Los Angeles Kings, Rasmus Kupari
21st – San Jose Sharks, Ryan Merkley
22nd – New York Rangers (from Pittsburgh Penguins via Ottawa Senators), K’Andre Miller
23rd – Anaheim Ducks, Isac Lundestrom
24th – Minnesota Wild, Filip Johansson
25th – St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Dominik Bokk
26th – Ottawa Senators (from Boston Bruins via New York Rangers), Jacob Bernard-Docker
27th – Chicago Blackhawks (from Nashville Predators), Nicolas Beaudin
28th – New York Rangers (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Nils Lundkvist
29th – Toronto Maple Leafs (from Winnipeg Jets via St. Louis Blues), Rasmus Sandin
30th – Detroit Red Wings (from Vegas Golden Knights), Joe Veleno
31st – Washington Capitals, Alexander Alexeyev
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13 Comments
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Last Defenseman to play Centre for the Canucks was Kevin Bieksa, just look up the replay.
most of my fav players are all D men.
Trent Cull makes sense.
best defencemen in the league, cale is a bum compared to quinn lol
It’s gotta be the Italian guy who sits behind the visitor bench at Rogers Arena.
I think that Reddit comment about that minor league coach habitually playing D-men at forward pestering Boudreau to play a D-man at forward makes the most sense to the the culprit. Being the minor league coach, or maybe even promoted to an assistant coach at the NHL level would put him in a position to pester, but also Bruce could still easily just ignore him. If it was the owner or someone higher up in the management structure, they could order Bruce to do it and BB may not have been able to say no. So coming from above Bruce in the org makes less sense then coming from below him, and from someone with a history of pulling that crap even more so.
I don't think Bruce is petty enough to lie about something like that, and by the sounds of it, that Cull guy responsible for this nonsense was fired, by the new management team, so maybe that was a contributing factor?
As dumb as the idea sounds I’m pretty sure Huggy is getting over 100 points at centre
We had Miller, Pettersson, and Horvat at C. A depleted defense, this makes no sense. I really like(d) Bruce, but some things are better left unsaid. He also claimed all the players were crying when he was let go. Bruce gets 2 minutes for embellishment!
Bruce would have you believe this guy wanted Hughes at centre when we already had Miller, Petey and Horvat there. So would Hughes have been our 4C? it doesn't make sense. I think Bruce has a bit of sour grapes directed at the team.
A flippant comment made off the cuff? Would love to see the context in which BB saod this rather than relying on sensational "newsmakers" reports.
Sounds a lot like something
someone in a Vancouver franchise would want to do. Next thing you know they'd want to make Demko the captain..
Who really cares Bruce! Look, I liked Bruce as a person and I know he got a raw deal in the process of getting let go…..but this team was absolutely rudderless last year! Night and day to what Boudreau was doing compared to the coaches now.
The Canucks were so bad under Boudreau that maybe it was suggested in context because nothing worked right on this team last year so why not try Hughes at centre for a few shifts…..they were so bad anyways so nothing to lose!
Just weird why Boudreau said this was eating at him for the last yeah that he had to tell the world!
Who cares if someone wanted to try him at forward? Did they say the same thing when they made forward Brent Burns a defenseman when he was drafted and played as a forward at the start of his pro career lol?
Sour apples on Boudreaus part and made it a bigger deal than it was.