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By Earl Zukerman

MONTREAL – Guy Boucher, a former McGill 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 Université de Montréal, plus arts and engineering degrees from McGill, where he played four seasons for the Redmen, from 1991 to 1995.

At McGill, 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’s coaching staff and has been coaching hockey since graduating in 1995, including stints as an assistant coach with the QMJHL's Rimouski Océanic 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.